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The Environmental Protection Agency defines it as running from west-central Pennsylvania, east-central and south Ohio, north and northwest West Virginia, and a portion of northeast Kentucky. [2] [3] The ecoregion covers approximately 84,500 km2 (32,630 mi2). [2] It is about 72 percent forest and 23 percent agriculture.
Bluebell Preserve, 230 acres (93 ha) adjacent to the Hockhocking-Adena Bikeway, and bordering the Wayne National Forest to the west. This preserve was created in two phases, 65 acres donated to the Conservancy by AEP in 2006, and 165 acres purchased from AEP using Clean Ohio Conservation Fund moneys in 2018. It is in York and Dover Townships.
In terms of land cover, grasslands have the highest percentage of coverage with more than 535,000,000 acres (2,170,000 km 2) in the United States alone. [6] Grazing Land Conservation Initiative (GLCI) The Grazing Land Conservation Initiative (GLCI) is set up to help improve grazing land that is privately owned.
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 ...
Of the foreign-held farmland acres in Ohio, 52.5% are considered cropland and 29.9% are forest land, according to the report. 'Risk of death by suicide': Ohio farmers can now access mental-health ...
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 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 Clean Ohio Fund is Ohio's main funding source for open space conservation, farmland preservation, trail creation, brownfield restoration, and protection of ecologically sensitive areas. The fund was approved by voters in 2000 as a $400 million bond initiative and renewed for another eight years in 2008.