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Also, see Adams Lake State Park
 * =Birding in Ohio=

Adams County
=Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve= 14633 OH-41 West Union, Ohio 45693 Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve webpage Adams Lake State Park trail map

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Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 38.81109, -83.5296884 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Adams Lake SP
Coordinates: 38.8147484, -83.5228958 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips on birding Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve
Good birding in breeding season and winter. Look for tanagers (both), coopers hawk, herons and orioles in the summer, ducks and geese in winter. From Appalachian Discovery Birding Heritage Trail

About Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve

 * Xeric barren prairie
 * Summer wildflowers
 * Butterflies
 * A .25 mile trail system with bulletin board and interpretive signs is present. Other visitor facilities including restrooms, drinking water and picnicking are available in the adjacent state park.

Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve is located in Adams County within Adams Lake State Park, which is 1 mile north of West Union on OH-41. The marked entrance to the preserve is at the far west end of the park road.

This sparsely vegetated xeric, or dry, prairie is situated on a highly eroded slope of calcareous Estill Shale surrounded by a second-growth oak-hickory woodland. Red cedar, post oak, and blackjack oak occur sporadically in the prairie opening.

Prairie grasses are sparse but Adams Lake Prairie supports diverse prairie forbs including a stand of prairie dock. Some of the interesting plants found growing at this cedar barren prairie include spider milkweed, shooting-star, green milkweed, Carolina buckthorn, American aloe, slender blazing-star and large summer bluets. From Adams Lake Prairie State Nature Preserve webpage



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