Chad Sanders

LOUDONVILLE — By position, Chad Sanders is in the midst of another controversy involving the Mohican-Memorial State Forest. Sanders, a native of Greenwich, has served since 2011 as manager of the Mohican-Memorial State Forest, 4,600 acres of state-owned and state-managed hardwood and pine forest in Hanover Township southwest of Loudonville. He comes to Mohican after working for a decade in the timber industry, for Georgia-Pacific in Coos Bay, Oregon, and later in Fordyce in southern Arkansas for the Plum Creek Timber Co. At Plum Creek, he was responsible for the management of 280,000 acres, mostly harvested for its loblolly pine, as the senior resource forester. “That’s more acreage than the entirety of Ohio’s state forests,” he said. “