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Blog Entries - Jul. 2022
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Water: Our Essential Resource
by Jeff Corney, Executive Director Ohioans are blessed with an abundance of water. With Ohio’s share of Lake Erie to the north, the Ohio River to the south and east, plus thousands of lakes, streams, rivers,
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Guided by the Light
by Connie O'Connor, Director of Applied Learning Once upon a time, 200,000 years ago, the only source of light for Homo sapiens was the sun. We evolved to be diurnal, which means active during the day. The sun
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Urban Container Gardening for Wildlife
By Montana Scott, Environmental Interpretation Fellow It’s a warm, sunny afternoon and a monarch butterfly lands on a purple coneflower. Next to it, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird hovers, sipping from the bright red
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Foraging 101: How to Eat Truly Local
By Jason Neumann, Public Programs Manager It’s June and the larger-than-your-face, white umbrella-shaped blooms of American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) burst from the greenery, seemingly out of nowhere.