The Green County Forestry Educational Center, the brainchild of one of Green County's leading cheesemakers, Albert Deppeler, celebrates 45 years next month. During its inception in 1968, the center's fledging corporation sold membership shares at $25 each to raise $6,100 needed to purchase the West Clarno School, a one-room, brick building auctioned off by the Monroe School District. Behind it sat 20 acres of woods, which Deppeler and his wife, Marion, donated to the cause.
Forestry center to celebrate
45 years