Lunch & Legislators with ODNR Director Mary Mertz

Description

Mary Mertz serves as Director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Governor Mike DeWine appointed her to this post in January of 2019.  In this role, Mertz leads and oversees 11 divisions that manage Ohio’s state parks, preserves, and forests, analyze and report on geologic and water resources, protect and improve the Lake Erie coastline, conserve, and manage Ohio’s fish and wildlife, and regulate oil, gas, and mining industries. The department’s employees can be found in each of Ohio’s 88 counties, with assignments from the Ohio River to Lake Erie and its islands, and from the east to the western borders of Ohio.