“At Zaleski we have the only state-run sawmill,” said Streithorst, 26. “We fill orders for the internal department or other government agencies. … We have a 23.5-mile backpack trail, and we have backpack camps we maintain along with the horse trails. We also have a shooting range.”
The ODNR also assists fire departments with wildfires, she said.
Streithorst initially majored in business at The Ohio State University, but said those studies never clicked for her
“In my junior year of college I wasn’t happy in the business field,” she said. “So I transferred to the school of natural resources. … I took a step back and looked at things and decided I wanted to pursue something I was interested in. As a kid, my family always went camping, fishing, boating. I was always outside a lot as a kid, so natural resources are closest to my heart.”
Today, Streithorst is happy that her career provides so much variety.
“I’m never doing the same thing,” she said. “There is administrative work to the job, but I enjoy working in the field. We’re working on improving our backpack trails. That’s been a fun project.”
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