Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame

Raphael Zon
1874-1956

As the first director of the USDA Forest Service Lake States Forest Experiment Station, Raphael Zon directed a vital program of research that helped restore vast cutover old growth forests to the production of wood promotion of forestry among political and social leaders helped to create a climate that permitted the eventual purchase of National Forest lands and made possible state activities in forestry.

Inducted into the Wisconsin Forestry Hall of Fame
February 24, 1988