Keystone Furnace Wetlands Preserve
The Keystone Furnace Wetlands Preserve is an approximately 700-acre, extremely diverse area of upland mixed mesophytic forests, very high-quality and diverse wetlands, extensive riparian corridor, and open grasslands. The Preserve has an abundant assortment of tree species from oaks, hickory, maples, paw-paw, persimmon, sourwood, sassafras, poplar, Virginia pine, dogwood, and redbud, among others.
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Buckeye Swamp
The Buckeye Swamp area is pronounced with large rock outcroppings and steep hillsides believed to have been carved out by the pre-historic Teays River drainage. The Buckeye Creek currently snakes its way thru the lower portion of the gorge thru what was a 28 acre lake and wetlands previously known as Buckeye Swamp.
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Hammertown Wetlands Restoration & Community Education Project
Ohio Valley Conservation Coalition is attempting to coordinate a joint project between several entities for an approximate 20-40 acre wetland / habitat restoration and education area in Jackson Co Ohio. This area lies within what is believed to be the pre-historic Teays River Area bottomlands. We have been granted funds from Ohio Public Works Clean Ohio to purchase the property that is currently an agricultural field with Buckeye Creek running along nearly 1/2 of the property boundary. We want to restore the area into a wetland, with a walking path, and educational kiosks as to the importance of wetlands both as habitat and water quality.
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Stroth-Rader Conservation Area
According to Joel Wood, Chairman of OVCC (a nonprofit organization dedicated to natural resource protection and restoration), the organization is very happy to have been given the opportunity to protect the property, which was purchased, in part, with funding from the Clean Ohio Conservation Fund. OVCC hopes to incorporate some habitat improvements and to make the property available for environmental education activities to local schools and universities.
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