Summary:
Jake Hodge was a long-time employee of the Bernheim Foundation. He began working as a laborer at Bernheim Forest about 1930. From that time until his retirement in April 1980 (with an approximate two year break in the early 1950s) Mr. Hodge worked as a laborer, naturalist, foreman, ranger, and mechanic at the Forest. In those almost fifty years he witnessed and participated in the development of Bernheim Forest.
