Oldaker+Wildlife+Area


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Highland County
=Oldaker Wildlife Area= Hillsboro, Ohio 45133 Oldaker Wildlife Area webpage Oldaker Wildlife Area map

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Oldaker Wildlife Area
Coordinates: 39.21711, -83.732536 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Oldaker Wildlife Area
This 141-acre wildlife area lies in the gently rolling farming region of Highland County, seven miles west of Hillsboro. It is easily reached from US-50, six miles west of Hillsboro, by traveling one mile northeast on County Road 6-C. The area lies on the northwest side of the road just south of the village of Russell.

Most of the area is in meadow and grain crops intermixed with brushy fencerows and extensive brushy coverts along Dodson Creek. An exceptionally fine 25-acre mature woods of beech, maple, swamp white and pin oak, and other hardwoods may be found in the northwest corner of the area.

This area was purchased in 1944. Located in an agriculturally productive section of Highland County, the area is managed primarily for rabbits and quail.

Open fields are maintained in a desirable mixture of meadow and grain crops for farm game species. Several thousand shrubs and conifers have been planted. The woods have been protected and improved. Several ponds have been constructed.

Cottontail rabbit, bobwhite quail, fox and gray squirrels, woodchuck, raccoons, muskrats, skunk, and opossum are the principal upland game and fur species in this region of Ohio. All of them are found in the area. A variety of waterfowl use the ponds, especially during spring migration.

Largemouth bass, bluegills, and catfish are the principal species of fish.

One parking lot is located on the south side of the area. From Oldaker Wildlife Area webpage

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