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Big Creek is a 15.6-mile-long (25.1 km) tributary of the Grand River and flows through Lake and Geauga counties in Ohio. [1] It rises in glacial till near Chardon, Ohio, and cuts through the Defiance Moraine [2] on its way north and exposes rock formations from the Paleozoic Era, including the fossiliferous Chagrin Shale. [3]
Bear taxon names such as Arctoidea and Helarctos come from the ancient Greek ἄρκτος (arktos), meaning bear, [7] as do the names "arctic" and "antarctic", via the name of the constellation Ursa Major, the "Great Bear", prominent in the northern sky. [8] Bear taxon names such as Ursidae and Ursus come from Latin Ursus/Ursa, he-bear/she ...
The white-tailed deer is the state mammal of Ohio. This list of mammals of Ohio includes a total of 70 mammal species recorded in the state of Ohio. [1] Of these, three (the American black bear, Indiana bat, and Allegheny woodrat) are listed as endangered in the state; four (the brown rat, black rat, house mouse, and wild boar) are introduced; three (the gray bat, Mexican free-tailed bat and ...
Multiple bear sightings were reported as the bear continued moving west, including to Carrier Mills in Saline County on July 11, the Marion area in Williamson County on July 18-19, and in the ...
Bear habitats are generally forests, though some species can be found in grassland and savana regions, and the polar bear lives in arctic and aquatic habitats. Most bears are 1.2–2 m (4–7 ft) long, plus a 3–20 cm (1–8 in) tail, though the polar bear is 2.2–2.44 m (7–8 ft) long, and some subspecies of brown bear can be up to 2.8 m (9 ...
The Swiss city of Bern's coat of arms depicts a bear and the city's name is popularly thought to derive from the German word for bear. [175] [176] The brown bear is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 5-kuna coin, minted since 1993. [177]
Ashland Soil and Water Conservation District will present a Conservation Chat this January on livestock predator management.
The origin of the name "Beargrass" is not clear, though local stories abound and it was written as "Baregrass Creek" and "Bear Grass Creek" in early maps. Lyndon Lore states, "The name Beargrass was originally Bear Grasse, because the bears came to the creek for water and also for salt from the salt licks which were located near Salt River ."