I had the pleasure of participating in a once-in-a-lifetime event today, the community celebration of the Ocala National Forest’s Centennial. It’s hard to believe this popular recreational resource has only been protected as a National Forest for the past 100 years, but that’s so … back on November 24, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt set aside [...]

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending a special celebration for US Forest Service employees and volunteers to commemorate the upcoming Centennial of the Ocala National Forest. On November 24, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt designated 160,000 acres of the Big Scrub as the Ocala National Forest, forming the first National Forest east of the Mississippi.
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