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The North Central Ohio Land Conservancy has received a gift of two commercial properties in Richland County worth $1 million from Mansfield businessman Kurt Stimens.. Eric Miller, trustee of the ...
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) is a political subdivision of the State of Ohio organized in 1933 to develop and implement a plan for flood reduction and water conservation in the Muskingum River watershed, the state's largest wholly contained watershed, covering more than 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2). Since the original ...
The name is the central creek that drains the preserve. In addition, the Conservancy holds a conservation and trail access easement on the 269-acre (109 ha) Baker Preserve, near Strouds Run State Park, which features hiking and horse trails open to the public. This easement was purchased using Clean Ohio Conservation Fund moneys.
In 1787 the Ohio Company of Associates contracted to buy 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of land in southern Ohio for one million dollars.They ended up only being able to raise $500,000, and so were sold a tract of 750,000 acres (3,000 km 2), plus lands set aside for support of local schools, a college, and the clergy, for a total tract size of 913,833 acres (3,698.15 km 2) at the confluence of ...
The area encompassing the Edge of Appalachia Preserve was first studied by ecologist Emma Lucy Braun in the 1920s. However, it was not until 1959 when the Nature Conservancy purchased 42 acres (170,000 m 2) near Lynx, Ohio that the Edge of Appalachia Preserve was created and established as a protected preserve.
Athens Conservancy preserves, in Athens County, Ohio; Crane Hollow Nature Preserve, Hocking County, Ohio; Edge of Appalachia Preserve, in Adams County, Ohio; Highlands Sanctuary, centered in Highland County, Ohio; Moonville Rail-Trail, a rail-trail in Athens and Vinton Counties; Strouds Ridge Preserve, City of Athens, Ohio
The Ohio Country was one of the first settled parts of the Midwest, and indeed one of the first settled parts of the United States beyond the original Thirteen Colonies. The land that became first the anchor of the Northwest Territory and later Ohio was cobbled together from a variety of sources and owners. List of Ohio Lands Canal Lands
Connecticut's land claims in the Western United States. The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms of its charter by King Charles II. [1]