Herrick+Fen

Also, see Portage County South Birding Drive
 * =Birding in Ohio=

Portage County
=Herrick Fen=

The Nature Conservancy
8260 Seasons Road Streetsboro, Ohio 44241 Herrick Fen State Nature Preserve webpage Herrick Fen Nature Conservancy webpage Herrick Fen trail guide and map

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Herrick Fen (TNC)
Coordinates: 41.2140702, -81.371119 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips on birding Herrick Fen
The entrance to Herrick Fen is a bit difficult to find. If you are going north on Seasons Road and you get to the railroad tracks, you've gone too far north. The entrance is just south of there, on the east side of the road. This link shows the Google Street View pointed at the entrance. You will see a lot of wood dumped in piles behind the railroad tracks. That is where you want to turn in. Drive over the railroad tracks, then turn right at the wood pile, then left, and drive down a narrow path. The entrance to the fen is on the right. From Brian Tinker

About Herrick Fen
The initial preserve tract was purchased by Dr. J. Arthur Herrick in 1969 and now comprises some 140 acres. It is jointly owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kent State University and managed by The Nature Conservancy as a dedicated state nature preserve.


 * Fen communities
 * Variety of rare plant species
 * A trail runs from the parking lot through a meadow

From Streetsboro, travel OH-43 south for 0.2 miles from its intersection with OH-14. Turn right (southwest) on Seasons Road. Follow Seasons Road 2.2 miles to a gravel lane on the left (east) side just past a railroad crossing. There is a gravel parking lot on right.

Herrick Fen is important for its tamarack fen and cinquefoil-sedge fen communities. The tamarack fen supports one of the few reproducing populations of tamarack in Ohio, the only native conifer in Ohio which sheds its needles each year. The cinquefoil-sedge fen contains an extensive population of bayberry, a state endangered plant found in only three locations in Ohio. The preserve provides habitat for over two dozen state-listed species.

Threats to the preserve include urban encroachment, siltation, and invasive non-native plant species such as buckthorn, cattail, and reed canary grass. Extensive and prolonged fluctuations in the lake level can negatively impact the fen community, especially the tamaracks which are sensitive to high water levels caused by beaver activity in the preserve.

The ecological goal for this preserve is to restore or maintain the biodiversity of the tamarack fen and cinquefoil-sedge fens through aggressive invasive species control and managing the water level of the lake. From Herrick Fen State Nature Preserve webpage



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