Ohio Natural Areas & Preserves Association

SAVE THE DATE!

ONAPA ANNUAL MEETING
Saturday, August 18th,
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Owens Community College, Veterans Hall
Perrysburg, Ohio.
This location is conveniently located just off I-75 and will be easy access to a number of excellent field trip locations in NW Ohio in the afternoon. There will be 3 morning speakers, a business meeting and lunch, before the field trips. More information is coming soon on our website and registration will likely begin in early July. Mark the date and be sure to come!

ONAPA Members Went to Kansas . . . See What You Missed!

ONAPA held another wonderful out-of-state trip this year (our third trip) to Kansas to visit some of the prairies in the eastern part of the state during June 12-14th. Twenty-four ONAPA members participated, including Guy Denny, Dick Moseley, and Jennifer Windus as trip leaders. We visited the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Emporia, the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, and Konza Prairie near Manhattan. All three sites were spectacular, despite the heat, chiggers, and ticks. We saw a wide variety of prairie plants, as well as bison, collared lizards, ornate box turtles, and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Here are a few photos from the trip, but we will show more at the ONAPA Annual Meeting on August 18th!

Invasive Shrub Removal at Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve

On Tuesday, June 5th, 14 ONAPA volunteers worked with preserve manager, Michelle Comer at Clifton Gorge SNP to remove invasive woody shrubs, as well as some garlic mustard and Dame's rocket. The group worked on the scientific side of the preserve where there are a number of rare plants, so it is particularly important to remove the invading woody shrubs there. The group got a lot of work accomplished and was fortunate to avoid thunderstorms in the area.

Richard E. Moseley, Jr., Awarded the Glenn Thompson Leadership Award

Dick Moseley, former First Lady, Hope Taft, and Eric Partee

On February 28, 1968, Ohio became a pioneer in river preservation with the passage of the Scenic Rivers Act, the nation’s first scenic rivers law and seven months prior to the passage of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by Congress. In recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Ohio Scenic Rivers Act, the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and the Little Miami Conservancy, along with numerous other conservation organizations, including ONAPA, sponsored a special state legislative reception this past February 28th in the Statehouse Rotunda.

At the conclusion of this very special event, Richard E. Moseley, Jr. retired ODNR administrator and currently ONAPA’s Secretary was awarded the very prestigious Glenn Thompson award for Dick’s pioneering efforts in developing the Ohio’s Scenic Rivers Program as the first administrator of the program. The late Glenn Thompson, publisher of the Dayton Journal Herald, was a major force behind the passage of the state’s as well as federal scenic river laws. Presenting the award to Dick Moseley were former First Lady Hope Taft and Eric Partee, Executive Director of the Little Miami Conservancy.

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We have several stewardship projects planned for 2017, some of which are again on weekdays this year. We will include a short field trip on each project to see some of the preserve we are working at. RSVP HERE.

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The 2017 ONAPA member field trip schedule can be found HERE. Please remember to RSVP in advance so that we can plan accordingly. Not a member? Join HERE.

Any state nature preserve in your area can be visited and a report completed to help inform ONAPA and the preserve managers about the condition of the preserve. Click HERE for information.