Black Bayou Boardwalk Traditional Cache
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Welcome to The Black Fork Wetland Preserve, an Ashland University Nature Preserve & Environmental Studies Center.
This nature preserve is open to the public during daylight hours only: One-Half hour before sunrise & One-Half hour after sunset.
This cache has been placed with permission from Ashland University.
BLACK FORK WETLANDS HISTORY:
In 1998, with the help of an anonymous donor, Ashland University purchased 38 acres of wetland six miles south of campus on U.S. 42. In 2004, an additional 260 acres was purchased with the support of a matching grant from the Clean Ohio Conservation fund. This preserve has a mix of several habitats, including buttonbush swamp, swamp forest, marsh, riparian corridor, and upland areas. Species observed at the preserve include beaver, trumpeter swans, bald eagles, soras, and sandhill cranes. Wetlands are habitats with high ecological value. Floodplain areas help slow, absorb, and filter water moving downstream during periods of high water and thus provide valuable ecosystem services. They have the highest biological productivity of terrestrial habitats outside of rainforest areas. The inclusion of nearly 300 acres in the Black Fork Wetland Preserve lessens its susceptibility to outside activities that might affect it and also provides many species with the larger habitat areas needed for maintenance of their populations.
Congrats to TygerKat on the FTF (and skipping out on school)
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