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Friends of the Land Collection
Description: Promotional flyer for the 7th session of the Ohio Conservation Laboratory, summer 1946, which was a place-based teacher-training summer workshop in conservation education, sponsored jointly by the Ohio State University and State Department of Education and State Division of Conservation and Natural Resources. Friends of the Land Executive Secretary Ollie E. Fink was involved in the establishment and promotion of the Ohio Conservation Lab, and the program became a model for conservation training in Friends of the Land speeches, essays and literature. In summer 1946, the Lab was held at Camp Muskingum on Leesville Lake in Carroll County, Ohio. 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_B03F04_01_01
Subjects: Conservation education; Environmental education; Agriculture; Soil science; Societies and clubs;
Places: Camp Muskingum (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio)