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ODNR owns and manages more than 640,000 acres (260,000 ha) of land, including 75 state parks, 23 state forests, 136 state nature preserves, and 150 wildlife areas. The department has jurisdiction over more than 61,500 mi (99,000 km) of inland rivers and streams, 451 mi (726 km) of the Ohio River , and 2.29 million acres (9,300 km 2 ) of Lake Erie .
Also found within Mohican-Memorial State Forest is the Memorial Forest Shrine Park, covering 270 acres (1.1 km 2). In the Memorial Forest Shrine Park there is a chapel-like shrine that has the names of all 20,000 soldiers from Ohio who lost their lives in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Persian Gulf War. [1]
Bigelow Cemetery State Nature Preserve: 0.5: Madison Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve: 956.5: Licking Boch Hollow (Kessler) State Nature Preserve: 571.0283: Hocking Bonnett Pond Bog State Nature Preserve: 16.52: Holmes Boord State Nature Preserve: 126.704: Washington Brown's Lake Bog State Nature Preserve: 99.16: Wayne Burton Wetlands ...
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz talked to St. Peter's School first- and second-grade students Tuesday before the ribbon cutting at Malabar Farm State Park's new Visitor ...
The United States Geological Survey Board of Geographic Names disapproved a proposal to change the name Grand Lake to Grand Lake-Saint Marys, which is the name given on state maps and documents. [1] [3] The 1920 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica shows the name as Lake Mercer on the map of Ohio in the article on Ohio. "Lake St. Marys" was ...
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources , there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [ 1 ]
On April 4, 1993, a fire destroyed the main barn. In September 1994, 150 volunteers from the Timber Framers Guild of North America raised a new barn in resemblance of the original. Hostelling International USA had operated a 19-bed youth hostel for years in a farmhouse that was acquired when Malabar Farm was given to the State of Ohio. This was ...
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