College Township near Gambier in Knox County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
What is Your Role in Shaping Our Future?
Photographed by Craig Doda, October 24, 2025
1. What is Your Role in Shaping Our Future? Marker
This goal helps maintain a future for Ohio's great natural diversity, as well as one offering clean air, clean drinking water, and a beautiful place for Knox County residents to call home.
What Can You Do?
BFEC programs are free and open to the public. Playing a positive role in shaping the future of our landscape can be as simple as reducing the use of pesticides or planting a few butterfly-friendly plants. Bringing children to natural areas helps them grow into adults who care. Plus it's healthy and fun! Interested?
Help the BFEC Achieve Its Mission: Become a Member
While the BFEC receives support from Kenyon College, we also rely on donations from community members. Their generosity allows us to offer a wide range of programs and continue our conservation work. To become a member, please detach a form from a newsletter or trail brochure, and insert it with your contribution in the drop box provided. Thank you.
1947 Beaver return to Ohio
1956 Wild turkey reintroduced
1975 Only 4 pairs of eagle remain in Ohio
1986
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1994 30% of Ohio covered by forest
1996 BFEC dedicated
2007 186 eagle nests recorded in Ohio
Erected by Brown Family Environmental Center at Kenyon College.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Animals • Horticulture & Forestry. A significant historical year for this entry is 1947.
Location. 40° 22.427′ N, 82° 24.372′ W. Marker is near Gambier, Ohio, in Knox County. It is in College Township. It is at the intersection of Laymon Road and Porter Road, on the right when traveling south on Laymon Road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 9781 Laymon Rd, Gambier OH 43022, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Amish Country. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Natural Areas (here, next to this marker); Conserving Natural Diversity (here, next to this marker); Change is Constant (here, next to this marker); Thomas R. Sant '65 H '13 (a few steps from this marker); River of Life (approx. 0.2 miles away); Living History Along the Kokosing River (approx. 0.3 miles away); Colonel Lorin Andrews (approx. 0.4 miles away); John Crowe Ransom & The Kenyon Review (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gambier.
Photographed by Craig Doda, October 24, 2025
2. What is Your Role in Shaping Our Future? Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on May 4, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 2, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 7 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on May 2, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.
