OSAF Members Recognized as SAF Fellows

Elected to honor members who have provided outstanding contributions to the SAF and to the forestry profession

Fellow Year Elected Status
Ohio Chapter, Cental States Division
William F. Cowen, Jr. 1979 Moved to Arizona, Passed 2020
Ohio Society (OSAF)
Ture L. Johnson 1983 Passed 2001
Ovid A. Alderman 1984 Passed 1986
Irving I. Dickman 1984 Passed 1987
Donald E. Richter 1984 Passed 1989
Franklin P. Newell 1985 Not currently a SAF member
James H. Brown 1986 Passed 2019
Ernest J. Gebhart 1986 Passed 2005
William R. Lebold 1986 Passed 2019
James T. Lenox, Jr. 1986 Not currently a SAF member
Garry F. Marcum 1986 Moved to Virginia
Robert A. Nelson 1986
David M. Bergman 1987 Not currently a SAF member
Everette D. Rast 1987 Moved to West Virginia
David A. Schatz 1987
Ralph Elmer Hershberger 1989 Passed 2007
Howard B. Kriebel 1989 Passed 2004
Robert A. Nosse * 1989 Passed 1989
John “Jack” P. Vimmerstedt 1989 Passed 2021
David F. Berna 1990
Robert B. Redett 1990 Passed 2008
Dan B. Kincaid 1991
Lawrence J. Ehlers 1994
David L. Embree 1994 Passed 2021
John R. Gerlach 1995 Passed 2012
William D. Ticknor III 1996 Passed 2011
Walter D. Smith 1999
Emmett A. Conway 2000 Passed 2009
Daniel B. Houston 2002 Passed 2019
Mark A. Jukich 2002
Philip S. Perry 2003
Thomas D. Berger 2005 Passed 2018
John E. Dorka 2006
Daniel A. Yaussy 2007
Peter R. Woyar 2008
Ronald G. Abraham 2009 Passed 2020
Roger D. Weaver 2010
Stephanie Miller 2011
Lee Crocker 2013
Kathy Smith 2014
Dave Apsley 2015
Bob Boyles 2016
Rich Cappell 2017
Mark Ervin 2018
Jeremy Scherf 2019
Eugene Walters 2021

* Died after nomination and prior to election.

Originally Fellows were elected by the membership. Beginning in 2006 the District 9 Fellow Committee evaluated and recommended Fellows to National SAF Council, which has final approval.

Updated 11/2021 tlr