'Conservation Bulletin for Teachers' booklet   Save
Friends of the Land Collection
Description: Mimeographed book on conservation education from Zanesville Public Schools, dated September 1939. The bulletin notes that Vernon Carter has replaced Ollie E. Fink as the new supervisor of conservation in Zanesville Public Schools. Fink launched his career as a teacher and administrator and architect of a pioneering conservation education program in Zanesville, capitalizing on the prominence of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Project in the eastern portion of the state. The bulletin illustrates lesson plans and curriculum guides for conservation education programs across the K-12 spectrum, with bibliography. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS364_B03F01_02_01
Subjects: Conservation education; Environmental education; Agriculture; Soil science; Societies and clubs;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)