Qualla: Tar Hollow State Forest https://qualla.com/tar-hollow-state-forest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Tar Hollow State Forest https://qualla.com/tar-hollow-state-forest Tar Hollow State Forest: Introduction https://qualla.com/tar-hollow-state-forest/ The forest is here because the farms were not working. In the 1930s, the federal government looked at the ridge-and-hollow country where Ross, Vinton, and Hocking counties meet and saw something specific: subsistence farmers struggling to scratch a living from worn-out hillside soil. The Ross-Hocking Land Utilization Project bought their land, helped them relocate, and reforested the hollows. Almost a century later the forest covers 16,120 acres of Appalachian Ohio. Some of those families' descendants still hunt these hills. The pine and oak that grow here grow on land that once held kitchen gardens.

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