
A Marsh & More: New Park Advances Many Goals
Howard Marsh will benefit Lake Area, provide additional recreation opportunities and put Metroparks Toledo a step closer to fulfilling its promise of a park within five miles of every home in the county.
Metroparks actively works to preserve the best examples of Northwest Ohio’s natural areas for public enjoyment. Protecting forests, grasslands, rivers, and wetlands, promoting sustainable use, is the most important work that we do.
Howard Marsh will benefit Lake Area, provide additional recreation opportunities and put Metroparks Toledo a step closer to fulfilling its promise of a park within five miles of every home in the county.
Metroparks Toledo will plant 35,000 trees over the next several weeks. A contractor will plant the majority of the trees, while volunteers will assist park staff to plant the remainder.
Metroparks takes steps reduce risk of W. Nile virus from mosquitoes.
The Board of Park Commissioners has approved a contract with Mark Haynes Construction of Norwalk for the construction of Howard Marsh Metropark near the Lake Erie shore in Jerusalem Township.
More than 6,000 lbs of ground venison was donated to local food charities following a winter culling operation at Oak Openings Preserve and Wildwood Preserve.
Dragonflies are hot, and Wiregrass Lake is a hot spot to see them.
The Metroparks Vernal Pool Monitoring Program raises public awareness about the existence of these habitats while allowing people to participate in interesting and important field-research.
There are five butterfly transects monitored in the Metroparks, currently: three occur in Oak Openings Preserve, one at Wildwood Preserve and one at Swan Creek Preserve.
Human land uses have a strong influence on landscape level patterns of plant species diversity, especially for exotic species, a recent study concluded.
It is important to conserve our bat species, as they play a very important ecological role as major predators of night flying insects, like mosquitoes and agricultural pests