Edge+of+Appalachia+Preserve

Also, see Edge of Appalachia Important Bird Area and Adams County Birding Drive
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Adams County
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The Nature Conservancy
West Union, Ohio 45693 Edge of Appalachia Preserve (Nature Conservancy) website Edge of Appalachia Preserve (Cincinnati Museum Center) website Edge of Appalachia video Edge of Appalachia Preserve Trail Locations map Portman Trail map

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Edge of Appalachia Preserve (TNC)
Coordinates: 38.748396, -83.4636 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Edge of Appalachia Preserve (TNC)--Abner Hollow Rd.
Coordinates: 38.7195369, -83.4246826 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Edge of Appalachia Preserve (TNC)--Buzzardroost Rock
Coordinates: 38.7734916, -83.4385872 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data Buzzardroost Rock website Buzzardroost trail guide and map

Edge of Appalachia Preserve (TNC)--Lynx Prairie
Coordinates: 38.76738, -83.41149 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data Lynx Prairie Trail website Lynx Prairie Trail brochure and map

Edge of Appalachia Preserve (TNC)--Wilderness Trail
Coordinates: 38.77978, -83.41757 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data Wilderness Trail website Wilderness Trail brochure and map

Tips for birding the Edge of Appalachia Preserve
From Ohio Ornithological Society website

About the Edge of Appalachia Preserve
The most popular of all trails in the Edge of Appalachia Preserve system is the one that leads to Buzzardroost Rock, which stands like a giant limestone monument far above the waters of Ohio Brush Creek. The panoramic scene from this hilltop has been called Ohio’s most spectacular view.

The 465-acre protected area is named for the turkey and black vultures (buzzards) frequently seen soaring above or roosting on the rock. This dolomitic outcrop towers 300 feet above the valley and provides habitat for a number of rare prairie plant species, including the plains muhlenbergia grass, which is classified as an endangered species in Ohio.

Ancient forests of massive oaks and American chestnut once blanketed nearly all of what would become southern and eastern Ohio. When the first white settlers arrived in the Ohio Valley, wolves and elk wandered this rustic landscape of pristine rivers and fertile forests.

Yet by the early 1900s, about 90 percent of the original forest cover had been cleared to make room for farmland and to feed the iron furnaces of southern Ohio--severely degrading part of North America’s oldest and most biologically diverse forest systems.

Today, Ohio’s Appalachian forests are returning, with nearly 40 percent of the region cloaked in mixed hardwood forest. The Nature Conservancy’s nearly 16,000-acre Edge of Appalachia Preserve is a key component of this recovery process, mending habitats on a large scale and preserving the landscape’s unique natural legacy. From Edge of Appalachia Preserve website



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