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Tourism in Ohio Ohio Sea Grant Encourages State Tourism Through Environmental Efforts TABLE of TWINELINE OHIO SEA GRANT the Ohio State University 1314 Kinnear Rd TWINELINE 2 0 1 8 W I N T E R / S P R I N G E D I T I O N V O L . 4 0 / N O . 1 Tourism in Ohio Ohio Sea Grant encourages state tourism through environmental efforts TABLE OF TWINELINE OHIO SEA GRANT The Ohio State University 1314 Kinnear Rd. Columbus, OH 43212-1156 Phone: 614.292.8949 Fax: 614.292.4364 CONTENTS ohioseagrant.osu.edu 2 0 1 8 W I N T E R / S P R I N G E D I T I O N V O L . 3 2 / N O . 2 OHIO SEA GRANT STAFF Dr. Christopher Winslow Director [email protected] Dr. Kristen Fussell Assistant Director Page [email protected] Ohio: Exploring the Heart of America ..........................................................3 Jill Jentes Banicki Assistant Director A Charcoal Scrub for Drinking Water ...........................................................7 [email protected] Scouts‘ Honor ...............................................................................................8 Bryan Ford Business Manager Like a Rock ..................................................................................................10 [email protected] Eighty Years of Tiny Lake Erie Critters .......................................................12 Emily Burbacher Small Town Fish Festival Lures in a Big Crowd .........................................14 LEARN & Curriculum Coordinator What’s the True Value of Lake Erie Beaches? ............................................15 [email protected] Questioning Quicksilver Quantities ............................................................16 Christina Dierkes Outreach Specialist Restoring Wetlands, Piece by Piece...........................................................17 [email protected] From the Lab to the ER ................................................................................18 Erin Monaco Program Administrator Stone Lab Tour Dates Set For the 2018 Season .........................................19 [email protected] George Oommen System Engineer [email protected] Lisa Rice Communications & Marketing Specialist [email protected] Joy Snow Program Assistant High Demand [email protected] EXTENSION AGENTS Tory Gabriel Leads To New Program Leader Ottawa County 419.898.3631 Gibraltar Island Tour [email protected] Dr. Kristin Stanford This summer, visitors to South Bass Island will Stone Laboratory Education & have an additional chance to visit Stone Lab every Outreach Coordinator 614.247.6500 week. Due to high demand, staff have added an [email protected] afternoon option to the popular Gibraltar Island Joe Lucente Stone Lab’s education and outreach coordinator. Lucas County tour, which introduced more than 500 visitors in 419.213.2028 2017 to the lab’s research and local history. The new time slot should help streamline [email protected] transportation and check-in and give the visits a Sarah Orlando “For almost every tour last year, we were Clean Marinas Manager more relaxed feeling overall, Stanford added. 419.609.4120 turning people away,” said Dr. Kristin Stanford, [email protected] Matt Thomas For details on Gibraltar Island tours and other Stone Lab tour options, turn to page 19 of this issue. Stone Laboratory Manager 419.285.1846 ON COVER: IMAGE COURTESY OF ASHTABULA COUNTY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU [email protected] Scott Hardy Twine Line (ISSN 1064-6418) is published four times a year by the Ohio Sea Grant College Program at The Ohio State University, 1314 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OH 43212-1156. Cuyahoga County Subscription price is $10.00 per year (four issues). The opinions expressed are those of the authors only. Please contact the office to obtain permission before reprinting articles 440.463.9867 or graphics. Ohio Sea Grant is a statewide program that supports greater knowledge and stewardship of Lake Erie and the Great Lakes. It is part of the NOAA Sea Grant College [email protected] Program (NOAA grant NA16RG2252, project M/P-2), which includes 33 state programs. Support of Ohio Sea Grant is provided by National Sea Grant, the State of Ohio, The Ohio State University, Ohio State University Extension, and participating universities, agencies, and businesses. Jill Bartolotta Lake County 440.350.2267 2 TWINELINE 2018 WINTER/SPRING EDITION [email protected] How Ohio Sea Grant Helps Ohio Celebrate, Preserve and Share Its Allure OHIO exploring the Heart of America by Joy Snow, Ohio Sea Grant ourism is remarkably complex. Like an iceberg, most people will only see a small part of the big picture, but tourism’s influence is far-reaching in Ohio. It affects and is affected by many different factors, from the economy T to the environment, and is intertwined with life in the Buckeye State. That’s why Ohio Sea Grant has such a large stake in the success of tourism. In providing travel experiences like tours and events or supporting communities in finding the best ways to attract more visitors, Ohio Sea Grant is there to help show off what makes this state so special. OHIO TRAVEL IS BIG BUSINESS is direct. Businesses like Sandusky’s Cedar “Tourism in Ohio is largely Point or events like Port Clinton’s Walleye underappreciated,” said Melinda Huntley, Festival contribute to many jobs in lodging, executive director of the Ohio Travel transportation and food service. But the flow Association. “Most people never notice how of the travel dollar beyond the businesses travel benefits them.” When tourism in an travelers encounter isn’t always as obvious. area succeeds, it has a tendency to uplift the In 2016, 212 million visitors spent surrounding community too. Visitors to any $34 billion directly at Ohio hotels, area often spend money at many businesses, attractions, shops and other travel-related Photo courtesy Lake Erie Shores & Islands not just the hotel or event they traveled to businesses. That spending spurred an attend. This spending can have a big impact on additional $9 billion as travel-related “Tourism in Ohio is largely the economies of communities. Ohio businesses purchased goods and underappreciated. Most The eight counties bordering Lake Erie supplies, like ingredients for a restaurant (Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Erie, Lorain, or mechanical parts for a ferry, from people never notice how Cuyahoga, Lake and Ashtabula) account neighboring businesses to meet consumer travel benefits them.” for approximately one-third of Ohio’s total demand. All this spending adds up, and travel economy. In many of these coastal according to the Ohio Department of Taxation, MELINDA HUNTLEY — places, it can be easy to see how tourism the travel industry accounts for nearly 11% of impacts communities because the effect all sales tax collected by the state. TWINELINE 2018 WINTER/SPRING EDITION 3 COVER STORY CREATING RICHER (AND MORE EDUCATIONAL) EXPERIENCES hio Sea Grant is on the forefront of the effort to improve environmental education in the travel industry. Education and Otravel go hand-in-hand: a great way to educate people is through the creation of memorable experiences that speak to a traveler’s heart, and the goal of tourism is exactly that. “You may have a perception of that place, but you don’t have a connection, nor do you know what that place has to offer until someone shows you,” said Huntley. Ohio Sea Grant works Tourist attractions, such as the Marblehead Lighthouse, in the eight counties with industry leaders and local communities bordering Lake Erie account for about one-third of Ohio’s $34 billion travel industry. to help them provide the most memorable, The Ohio Tourism Leadership Academy, a collaboration between Ohio Sea Grant and the Ohio Travel Association, has helped more than 150 tourism professional leaders educational and engaging experience possible collaborate with economic and environmental leadership in fostering growth while with the goal of leaving visitors with a positive protecting the natural resources that make Ohio tourism so successful. impression of the state and an understanding Photo: Morgan Paul of its natural beauty. Welcoming travelers is a great opportunity to change people’s perceptions and educate A great example of such a program is they can do to help preserve the health of them on the environment and how humans the Ohio Clean Marinas and Clean Boater Lake Erie. affect it. “Many environmental groups focus programs. “The Clean Marinas Program is the The Ohio Clean Marinas Program has on the negative, and there is a time and place classic example of a program that supports a been monumentally successful on Lake Erie. for that, but we have to balance it with the healthy environment and a healthy economy,” So successful, in fact, that in 2015 marina positive,” said Huntley. Traveler motivation said Huntley. Started in 2005 through a owners asked for help in developing a similar studies show that people want to learn about partnership between the Ohio Department of program for inland waters and lakes. This the places they visit, and they learn best when Natural Resources (ODNR), Lake Erie Marine expanded the Clean Marinas Program they’re engaged. Through tour guides, posters, Trades Association and Ohio Sea Grant, the statewide, helping to ensure the health of pavilions at festivals and many other methods, Clean Marinas Program encourages better Ohio waterways for generations to come. museums and popular travel destinations can environmental practices at marinas by offering Currently, more than 45 marinas are certified educate guests on any number of subjects, like a certification that the marina can then use as Ohio Clean Marinas, and 35 more are harmful algal blooms and invasive grass carp to promote their business. They also have
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