Annual Speaker Series: Guy Denny

Hosted by Licking Land Trust

Annual Speaker Series: Guy Denny
Monday, November 3, 2025, 7 pm

OSU Newark's Reese Center, Alford Hall

Mr. Denny served as Chief, Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, OH DNR, and Exec. Director of the Ohio Biological Survey.

He is currently the President of the Ohio Natural Areas & Preserves Association, and author of Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region and The Prairie Peninsula.

Guy is an interpretive naturalist, writer and photographer who was assistant chief of DNAP from 1976 to 1994, and Chief from 1994-1999. He was Executive Director of the Ohio Biological Survey from 2006-07, and also has served as Vice President of the Ohio Environmental Council, Secretary/Treasurer of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio, on the advisory board of The Trust for Public Lands (Ohio), and as trustee for several other Ohio conservation organizations. Guy wrote the Bogs & Fens section of Ohio’s Natural Heritage, published by the Ohio Academy of Science Press in 1979. He recently drafted the Articles of Dedication for Daughmer Savanna and wrote its management plan as a volunteer at DNAP. Guy lobbied to prevent DNAP being eliminated from state law in 2010. He is one of the three incorporators of ONAPA .​