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Ohio Department of Natural Resources The Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest and Raccoon Ecological Management Area (REMA) is a state forest in Vinton County , Ohio , United States . It comprises 15,849 acres, the largest remaining intact block of forest in Ohio still available for permanent protection.
Check out these nine trees, including a banned tree in Ohio. 1. Banned in Ohio: The Bradford pear tree. Native to Vietnam and China, the Bradford Pear tree is banned in Ohio due to its invasive ...
The Bradford pear makes a beautiful sight for fall-lovers, but they're invasive in Ohio and illegal to plant, grow and sell. Here's why.
Blue Rock State Forest: Muskingum County: 4,578 acres Brush Creek State Forest: Rarden: 13,515 acres Cravat State Forest: Belmont County: 350 acres Dean State Forest: Lawrence County: 2,745 acres (10 km 2) Fernwood State Forest: Jefferson County: 3,023 acres Gifford State Forest: Athens County: 320 acres (1.3 km 2) Harrison State Forest ...
It is primarily composed of American beech and sugar maple trees which co-dominate the forest and which are the pinnacle of plant succession in their range. [2] [3] A form of this forest was the most common forest type in the Northeastern United States when it was settled by Europeans and remains widespread but scattered today.
The Trimble Community Forest or Trimble Township Community Forest is a 1,200-acre (4.9 km 2) forest preserve owned by the Appalachia Ohio Alliance, a land trust located in southeast Ohio. Formerly called Taylor Ridge, it was purchased in 2006 from the Sunday Creek Coal Company, and was formerly part of the Sunday Creek State Wildlife Area . [ 1 ]
Also found within Mohican-Memorial State Forest is the Memorial Forest Shrine Park, covering 270 acres (1.1 km 2). In the Memorial Forest Shrine Park there is a chapel-like shrine that has the names of all 20,000 soldiers from Ohio who lost their lives in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. [1]
The preserve is composed of Elm-Ash-Maple swamp forest and mesophytic forest with many oak trees in the lower elevations. Because of drainage efforts for agriculture, the woods is transitioning slowly to Beech-Maple forest. In 2006, one of the largest burr oak trees, over 450 years old, died of old age.