Bio Reserve Hike Traditional Cache
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The location is near the entrance to the Denison University Biological Reserve, where you might see students doing field work during lab times. It's a great place to go running or walk your dog. So hopefully you will go past the cache and take a nice hike!
----CONGRATS TO Skynyrd fan FOR THE FTF!----
January 2020 update: Thanks to everyone who has helped this cache since I left the area! -ajsmith1019
The cache is a glass jar with a metal screw on top.
Original contents include:
2 lego men
2 packs of Extra gum
buckeye
cute binder clip
panda key chain
sparkly spider
pack of dinner toothpicks
tropical fish stickers
TRACKABLE: Southern Ocean geocoin
log sheet
#2 pencil
Site info:
Denison's Biological Reserve was established by the Board of Trustees in 1966 through the efforts of Professor Robert Alrutz, who served as director until his retirement in 1990. The Reserve encompasses 350 acres in three contiguous sections that are within easy walking distance of campus. Approximately 75% of the acreage is beech-maple/mixed mesophytic forest interspersed with old orchards and former plantations of pine, spruce, sugar maple and yellow poplar. Late successional habitats are characteristic of those disturbed by grazing over 50 years ago. In the Alrutz Section, three former agricultural fields are maintained in various stages of succession by seasonal mowing. Clay Run, along with four ponds and seven natural springs provide habitat for aquatic organisms. The Reserve provides refuge for numerous amphibians, turtles, snakes, bats, rodents, flying squirrels, white-tailed deer, red fox, and over one hundred species of birds.
The purpose of the Reserve is to enhance the education of students in Biology and the Environmental Sciences through their courses, independent research and casual visitation to the Reserve. This is accomplished by providing opportunities for field studies of native Ohio flora and fauna as well as discrete biological communities that are maintained in as intact a condition as is possible given the land use history of the Reserve and the resources of DU. Consequently, one of the general goals of the Reserve is to maximize the number of representative habitats and species that the area can support.
info taken from the DUBR website
Note: I was a student at Denison University until 2014, but no longer live in the area. If the cache is messed up in any way, please be a kind neighbor and fix it if you can :)
Additional Hints
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