Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-07-04
Divide State In
Six Districts

a. w. Marion. Director of The
Department of Natural Resources,
announced this week plans for
dividing tie State into six dis
tricts for the field operation Of
the seven divisions of the depart
ment. The divisions include Lands
ard Soil, Parks, W'sdlife, For
cstry, Water, Beach EroSlcn and
Geological Survey.
In most cases, office facilities
already owned by the various di-
visions of the department will be
used as headquarters for the field
personnel of each division.
District No. / will include the
waters of Lake Erie with head
quarters at SanduSky. District No.
2 will be made up of 19 counties
in northwestern Ohio with head
quarters at Findlay. District No.
3 will include II counties in
northeastern Ohio with head
quarters in Summit County at
Portage Lakes. District No. 4
will include 1S counties in eastern
Ohio with headquarters at Athens
and Sub-station at New Phila-
delphia. District No. 5 will in
clude IS central ard southern
counties with headquarters at
Chillicothe and District No 6 will
include 16 counties southwestern
Ohio with headquarters at Xenia
Director Marion stated that the
district operation will provide
greater coordination among the
divisions, more convenience to the
public and economy in general
administration of the department
and the divisions.
For many years the Division of
Forestry and the Wildlife Division
have used the district plan of OPP
GRAFTON but with separate head
quarters since the dictricts of the
two divisions did rot coincide.
Field offices of the Wildlife Di-
vision for the past several years
have been maintained at Ottawa
for District No. !; Tiffin, No. .;
Twinsburg, No. 3; Cambridge, No.
d; Columbus, No. 5; Urbana No. 6;
and Waverly, No. 7. The Wildlife
Council recently established Dis
trict No. 8 to include the waters
of. Lake Erie. All of the Wild
life Divisions former headquart-
ers and district structure will
be replaced with the new districts
ard headquarters.
DR.. Charles A. Dambach, Chief
of the Wildlife Division today
stated that the rev district op-
GRAFTON will save the Division an
estimated $4,000 annually in dis
trict office rent and maintenance.
The new districts will include
the following counties:
District No. 1, the waters of the
Lake Erie Fishing District.
District No. 2, Williams, Defi-
ance, Pauldirg, Van Vert, Mer-
Ger, Fulton, Henry, Putnam, AL
len. Auglaize, Lucas, Wood, Han
cock, Hardin, Ottawa, Sandusky,
Seneca. Wyandot and Crawford.
District No 5, Erie, Huron,
Richland, Lorain, Ashland, Cuya-
hoga, Medina, Wayne, Lake, Gea-
uga, Summit, Portage, Stark, Ash
tabula. Trumbull, Mahoning and
Columbiana.
District No. a, Holmes, Coshoc-
ton, Muskingum, Perry, Hooking,
Vinton, Tuscarawas, Guernsey,
Noble, Morgan, Athens, Meigs,
Carroll, Harrison, Belmont, JEFF
ferson, Monroe and Washington.
District No. 5, Marion, Morrow,
Krox. Delaware, Licking, Frank
lin, Madison, Fayette, Pickaway,
Fairfield, Highland, Ross, Pike,
Adams, Scioto, Jackson, Gallia
and Lawrence.
District No. 6, Darke, Preble,
Butler, Hamilton, Shelby, Miami,
Montgomery, Warren, Clermont,
Logan, Champaign, Clark, Greene,
Union, Clinton ard Brown.