Voll!lme 3, Number 11 February 1996 Editor/writer: David Beach BIOREGIONAL Inside Eating locally: BUILDING BLOCI{S A winter's tale of good food o The competitive advantages of inner cities o Moses Cleaveland trees o A bioregion shaped by ice o Sprawl pressure points and more." o Good words I .am consumed with the thought that Virtually every society on earth needs to step back (in mind) and consider once more who they are, what their deepest loyalties are, what life is for. Of all the memberships we identifY ourselves Shaded sandstone cliffin Elyria's Cascade Park. by (racial, ethnic, sexual, national, class, age, religious, occupational), the one that is 'most fo~gotten, and that has the Ecosystems of Northeast greatest potential for h~aling, is place. We live on the ecological edge in . We must learn to know, love and join our place We're at the intersection of continental regions- the Allegheny Plateau and flat, even more than we love our own ideas. Midwestern plains. We're at the stopping point of the glaciers. We're on the shore People wbo can agree that they share a of a Great Lake. Even our weather is on edg...... alternating between the influence commitment to the landscape/cityscap ...... of cold air masses from Canada and warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. even if they are otherWise As a result, we are blessed with rich ecological diversity. We have northern plant locked in struggle with each otber- species at the southern limit of their range and southern species at the northern limit have arteast one deep thing to share. of their ;ange. We are at the eastern edge of the North American prairie. And we're -Gary Snyder at the southwestern edge of the northern hardwood forest. We can find northern And tbe world cannot be discovered by a trees like hemlock in cool ravines and more southern trees like hickory and tulip on journey of miles, no matter how long, wanner exposures. but only by a spiritual journey of one inch, But what we find are just remnants of this region's native ecosystems. III tbe very arduous and humbling and joyful, 200 years since the beginning of European settlement, most ofth" region's natural by whicb we arrive at the ground at our feet, heritage has been lost to timbering, agriculture and urbanization .. We are left with and 'learn to be at home. small, isolated pockets of natura! area. -Wendell Berry Continued on page 6 HOME AT ECOCITY SUSTAINABLE WORI<

Miuion Sacred places EcoCity is a ~nonprofit, taX"~xernpt , educational organization. Tbrough the publication bfthe EcoCity Competing in the inner City Certain places on the earth have universal, timeless appeal. They evoke Cleveland Journal .and other programs, it will stimulate ecological thinking about the Northeas! Ohio region feelings of awe, peacefulness, or spiritual conn~ction . w ith the natural world. As people and jobs· keep migrating out to the business centers but (Cuyahoga Bioregion), nurture an EcoCity Network among suburbs, itls eaSy to get discouraged about the can't afford downtown You walk into these places and know immediately that you are treading on local groups working on urban and environmental issues. economic future of the inner city. Sometimes tents, or that benefit sacred ground.' an.d promote'sustainable ways the problems of crime, educational failure, from being next to . We would like to recognize some of these sacred places in Northeast to meet basicbuman needs for food, shelter, racism, and contaminated brownfield sites major transportation productive work and stable commUnities. Ohio. We invite readers to send in their nominations. We especially want to seem overwhelming. and communiCation But a few economists are raising hope nodes. know about places that might have been important to Native Americans prior Board of Trustees about the redevelopment potential of the inner David Beach, Direc/or, EcoCily Cleveland • Local market to the Eur~pean settlement of the Western Reserve. city. And by "inner city" we don't mean the demand. The inner~ Stuart Greenberg, Environmental Health Watch glitzy downtown areas that have already city market is often To get you thinking, here are some possibilities: Little Mountain near Phil Star, Center for Neighborhood Development. CSU received so much subsidized investment, but poorly served, forcing Kirtland (the high point of the region), Punderson Lake (one ofOliio's few Chris Trepal, The Earth Day Coalition rather the neighborhoods and business local residents to Carl Wirtz, Hausser + Taylor natural, inland lakes), Kendall districts in the periphery of downtowns. travel to the suburbs Ledges along the Cuyahoga AdVis~J;y Board The leading exponent of this view is to shop. Even though River Valley, Indian Point Deborah AJex~Sauoders, Minority En.Vironmental Assoc. Harvard Business School professor Michael inner-city incomes Porter, whose influential May-June 1995 may be low, there is along the Grand River, Tinkers Thomas Bier, CSU Housing Policy Researeh Program James Bissell, Cleveland Mliseum ofNat~r~lltf$~~rjI article in the Harvard Business Review still substantial buying ·Creek Gorge, the twin Dian,e Cameron, NotUFal Rf!sources De/ense'Counci/ explains how to capitalize on the inherent power to be tapped by Not-so-mean streets: Proximity to down~own gives- inner-city waterfalls in Elyria's Cascade Anne Cbaka, l/nion ojCollcet:'!edScie1jll'SI$ Hcompetitive advantage of the inner city. II businesses which can neighborhoods real advantages. ·Edith Ohio Coastal Resource Mgt.; Project Park, and particular bluffs Chas~, Porter argues that the key to inner city find the right Sandie Crawford}. Tri·C Centerlor E~yironmetJtalEducalion economic health is not more social services marketing niche. offering vistas of . by investing i~ u~ban infrastructure and land and·Trainin~ ...... and charity-although those are vital fo r • Integration with regional clusters. Envirqnllle!7tdl Or.ganfw.tion assembly·(instead of building new Lee

By Mary Kelsey project there and were rewarded with a summer of fresh organic fruits and vegetables. As summer turned to fall we began to think of It's mid-February and wet snow is correcting any impression spring expanding our winter's storage and taking advantage of the fann's might have arrived yesterday. offer to glean after market season was done. Could we lay in I've just eaten a Melrose apple grown on a neighbor's farm last enough potatoes, apples and other veggies to satisfy four quasi­ summer, and I've checked on the cold room where it was..stored: I vegetarian adults for a winter without too much fuss? - opened the vents and let in fresh air, now that it's cooling off again outside. Rising and falling temperatures have taken on new A make-shift root cellar meaning because they bear directly on one of my favo~ite activities: We read up on root cellars in Mike and Nancy Bubel's eating. comprehensive Root eel/aring and decided our best design option We didn't set out to eat -regionally and seasonally out of was to build a room in the basement of my mother's house next idealism, or thinking it would bring us closer to the place where we door. That would require partitioning off the furnace so it didn't live. We fell into it by accident. But now ihat we're half-way heat the whole basement-a project of several months or more. So through our second season of it, I can trace the seeds of my eating . we settled on a temporary root cellar, none other than last season's that apple in some personal experiences. I had spent a year studying bike room- to be transfonned and renamed the cold room. rain forest conservation in Central America, where I learned that One Saturday we hauled out all the stuff and reassigned it to. sustainable agriculture is important in saving forests. I was charity or the basement. We filled in gaps between sheetrock and interested in local community; and I shared with my partner, Will, a wood frame, and stuffeq steel wool in the spaces around pipes to desire for a simpler lifestyle. It made sense for us to keep out mice. For air circulation, Will installed try to eat more locally-grown food. It's worth a little louvered vents in two outsid.e walls, with removable Exploring Geauga County soon after we arrived, I ' insulated stoppers to keep out colder weather. He visited the weekly auction in Middlefield where our effort to provide made shelves of cinderblocks and some ofthe stray Amish neighbors sometimes buy produce. I had in ourselves with a boards. With a thermometer and later an electric

mind to get some potatoes, but when we got there healthy and heater to temper below-zero coldf our root cellar was most of them had already been sold, and what delicious diet that ready. remained were going in I50-pound lots. Before I enriches and We had planned ahead for the roots. We asked our knew it I had purchased three 50-pound bags of neighbors at Starr Farm to set aside 100 pounds of Portage County potatoes. I wondered how we would supports our their potatoes (grown without Paraquat), as well as ever eat them and tried to sell some off right there: area's farmers as 100 pounds of several apple varieties, a bushel of Illustration by Mary Kelsey But there were no takers, so we brought all three well as our bodies. butternut and acorn squash, and a big pumpkin. We drier, warmer storage. I braided the onions and hung them, thinking . pleasure of being more self-sufficient when snow closes everything bags home and put them in a room off my parents' boughi their last few dozen Spanish onions, they wouldn't keep; but the last one stayed crisp and fresh, and I down,. with staple foods at home and better than we could buy: We garage. although they weren't supposed to be keepers. From wished we had gotten more. don't eat out much, but when we do we're aware that our locally The "bike room" was the keeping place not only for bicycles but Silver Creek Farm we got another two bushels of organic potatoes, There have been twists' through the winter. For a while we had grown and stored food is safer and more nutritious than even most also an intriguing variety of garage-dwelling odds and ends of a dozen heads of garlic, and the chance to glean. mice, which even the cat couldn't deter. They managed to get the exotic restaurants serve. I've given up vitamins, figuring our .food potential, if unspecified, use some day. It measures eight by nine After a long and unusually warm autumn that extended the CSA peanut butter off traps without springing them. Eventually cheese gives me plenty of nutrients-for example, a serving of greens has· feet with a cement floor, insulated sheet-rock walls, and a tight door season until November, the day came when we finally got around with turkey gravy did the trick, and word evidently got out that the as much vitamin C as a glass of orange juice (which we've traded for which kept it so humid in summer that bicycle seats grew mildew. to digging root vegetables still in the ground. It was just beginning cold room was unfriendly to mice. With the heater on in sub-zero local cider). Our connection with our place and climate is deepened, We propped our potato sacks there on wood slats, and in winter to snow, making it cold, hard work vyresting carrots from the mud. weather we sometimes splash water on the floor to keep the optimal and we're getting to know farmers and CSAers in our community. moved them to the garage so they wouldn't freeze, putting them in But summer's memory of their sweet taste kept us going. and we 90% humiditY, and we watch weather changes, opening and closing Ifwe ever move to the city we'll bring our regional eating habits old steamer trunk that kept out mice. To our surprise, our two ail filled thr~e bushel baskets with clumps of mud-encased carrots, and vents'as needed. When spring warms the room above 40 degrees along. Most older homes have some spot that can be made into a households ate up all the potatoes by March. another three with more easily picked turnips and daikon. We put we'll store the rest of the food in refrigerators. Though the furnace good root cellar. Or we might continue to store food in the country, At that time I didn't know about Paraquat, a toxic chemical them in the cold n;)Qm until we could find a day to devote to· . work has been done. we haven't yet got around to building our "real" fetching it weekly. It's worth a little effort to provide ourselves with sprayed on most commercial potatoes. Nevertheless, we enjoyed cleaning them. root cellar in the basement. a healthy and delicious diet that enriches and supports our area's the taste of these non-organic,.local potatoes so much that it was a Molly Bartlett, owner and farmer at Silver Creek, thought we farmers as well as our bodies. All it takes is a little ingenuity, letdown to go back to supermarket spuds. We added a few other could just leave the carrots in their mud b~kets. But zealous new Local satisfaction perseverance, and remembering the incomparable taste of freshly­ items to our larder-a 50-pound bag of Ohio-grown onions from 'converts. that we were, we insisted on following the book. We This adventure has made an impression on our life here. We've' cooked, organic mashed potatoes. 0 another trip to the auction, and apples in half-peck quantities from washed our roots and laid them to bed in moistened sawdust from a discovered we're satisfied with a di,et of local organic food, though an orchard in Chardon. As winter went on, the farmers marked th~ir local Amish mill. At the end ofthe day there was still one bushel of it's much plainer than our sophisticated tastebuds were used to. (Ifl Mary Kelsey is an artist who lives in Geauga County. This/all, EcoCity 'prices up, and I realized we could have stored a season's supply at muddy clumps left; months later, when we got around to packing had more time I'd learn more ways to cook potatoes, but we haven't . Cleveland is planning to publish a special issue which will imagine what a "sustainable/ood system" might be like/or Northeast Ohio, We'd like to fall prices. them, we discovered they bad kept just fine and did pot have the tired yet of eating them once a day. I'm reminded of the simple, hear your ideas about local self-reliance and the ability 0/our region's Spring's warmth ended our first winter's storage but started the. brown film that had fonned on our sawdust-packed roots, probably unvaried' but satisfying food I ate in rural C~ntral America.) farms and gardens lo/eed our population. We hope io inspire a regional growing season at Silver Creek Farm in nearby Hiram. We signed due to too much moisture. (Luckily, this hasn't affected their fresh, About half of our food is from our own stores plus meat, poultry discussion about the source of our sustenance and the agricultural base up to help with the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) sweet taste.) We put squash in an unheated attic because it needs, and eggs from Silver Creek and other nearby farms. We have the required to grow il.

EcoCiry ClEVElANd () February 1996 4 EcoCiry ClEVElANd ·0 February 1996 5 OUR PLACE ON THE PLANET were used as trails by Native Americans and on them. Examples: North Chagrin Reservation the early settlers and later became major roads Examples: Lake Metroparks' Hidden . Shaded sandstone cliff south of Strawberry Lane Picnic Area, Hach­ such as Euclid A venue, Detroit Road, Lorain Valley Reservation along the Grand River, Cliffs of sandstone or conglomerate are Otis Sanctuary in Willoughby Hills, the Road and Center Ridge Road. Extensive areas ' South Chagrin uncQmmon in the Cleveland region. Within Vennilion and Black River reservations of the of swamp forest covered Cleveland's western Reservation, Vennilion River and Black the snowbelt east of C1evel~d, these cliffs Lorain Co-unty Metro Parks, and parts of the :suburbs and northern Lorain County, but River reservations of the Lorain County provide habitat for uncommon ferns, shrubs, Cleveland Metroparks' Rocky River. much has been lost to development. Metro Parks, Rocky River Reservation, trees and wildflowers that are more common Reservation. Examples: Cleveland Metroparks' Bradley Cuyahoga V;;tlley National Recreation Area. in the mountainous highlands of Woods Reservation in Westlake and North Pennsylvania, New York and New England. Oak-<:hestnut forest Olmsted, Lake Metroparks' Veterans Park in Upland·beaver pond marsh Examples: Rocky River Reservation north Oak-chestnut forests occur on sandy soils, Mentor. Beavers were eliminated from northeastern of Serea, Reservation, ridge areas, valley bluffs and rocky uplands Ohio du~ing much of the nineteenth century, South Chagrin Reservation, Brecksville covered by thin soils. At the time of Floodplain meadow but they returned in the 1920's and have Reservation, Nelson Ledges in Portage settlement, chestnut and several species of oak Local rivers from the Black in Lorain Cou~ty constructed impressive ponds and lakes County, Virginia Kendell Ledges in the composed this forest type, but chestnut to Conneaut Creek in· Ashtabula County are throughout the Glaciated Plateau east of Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, disappeared from this natural community lined with beautiful floodplain meadows. The Cleveland. Diverse emergent marshes flourish Lake Metroparks' Penetentiary·Glen. Whipps when the chestnut blight was introduced from meadows are maintained by ice flows and on the shores of beaver ponds and rare plants Ledges in the,Hinkley Reservation, Elyria's abroad around the tum of the century. This floods and a single herbaceous plant, Emory's sometimes grow there. Upland beaver ponds Cascade Park. type of forest is found on steep valley walls sedge, which builds most of the spectacular usually have a lower pH (are more acidic) on sands or shallow soils over bedrock, riv:ers ide meadows. The sedge produces a than riverine marshes and glacial lake Alvar (limestone outcropping) . especially on eroding slopes above slumps. carpet of grass-like tussocks with dense marshes. American bur-reed lines beaVer This rare herbaceous community, home of the Examples: Forest Hill Park in East underground stems ~d roots. When strearns­ p~)fld edges, while large bur~reed is more Lakeside daisy, occurs on open limestone 'Cleveland and Cleveland Heights, Harriet flood, the tussocks and roots slightly reduce common within riverine and glacial lake exposures that have little or no soil. The Keeler Woods in the Brecksville Reservation, the stream flow and suspend sediments i.n the marshes. community has also been called limestone pavement and limestone glade. Prairie plants Mixed floodplain forest along Silver Creek in Geauga County. parts of Chapin Forest and Holden sedge bed. As the beds build from the shore Examples: The Rookery of the Geauga Arboretum. they can change the course of the stream. Park District, floodplain areas in the and Great Lakes palustrine sand plain species inhabit the shores of ponds within depressions Beech-maple forest .Once the beds are well established, prairie Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, Ecosystems of Hemlock northern on the limestone flats. During years of heavy Beech~maple forests dominated by sugar grasses and summer meadow flowers establish Eagle Creek State Na.ture Preserve in Portage hardwood forest "'"",______--, County, Tinkers Creek State precipitation the ponds expand across dry flats Northeast Ohio maple and American beech were the most This community is typically found within and palustrine plants flourish along shorelines. Frompage I common natural community within the Nature Preserve near Hudson. These remnants can be seen in our parks, ·steep river valley ravines from the Vermilion Ponds shrink during dry years and seeds of the Cleveland region at the time of settlement. old estate lands and other protected ar~as. River in Lorain County east through Kettle lake palustrine species bank (lie dormant) within This forest type is particularly common on the· M.any of them are under' great stress-too Cleveland into Pennsylvania. Within the emergent.marsh shallow soil pockets and cracks in the gently rolling glacial deposits that cover small to sustain native animals that require primary snowbelt east of Large inland glacial lakes are pavement. large territories, impacted by the pollution and much of the high elevation ""------~ Cleveland the community relatively uncommon in Ohio, The best examples in the Cleveland region area to the southeast and activity of surrounding urban land uses, Seek these places also occurs locally on some but several occur in Geau·ga, are found near Sandusky on old quarry flats of southwest of downtown overwhelmed by invasive exotic species like ~onglomerate knobs and Portage, Summit and Stark the Marblehead Peninsula, at nearby Kelleys Cleveland. out, appreciate purple loosestrife and zebra mussels. Sensitive several types of wetlands. Counties. The largest is Island quarries, and within the Castalia Quarry Examples: A.B. areas can be destroyed ov·ernight, as_when a their distinctilie From northeastern Ohio, the Chippewa Lake in Medina Preserve of Erie Me:troparks. Williams Woods in the new shopping mall or subdivision upsets the community extends into the ' .County. The 1Jlarsh ecosystem Gleveland Metroparks' characters, and Sand barrens delicate water balance of a wetland. Thus, one mountains of Pennsylvania, develops in shallow areas around North Chagrin Reservation, Dry sandy openings called sand barrens and might wonder how much will survive another learn how to New York and New England the lakes. Holden Arboretum (Bole open oak forests known as oak savannahs 200 years. south to Virginia, West Other examples: Punderson Woods, Pearson's Creek), protect them_ For were once found in the Cleveland region on In 1996, as we celebrate the bicentennial of Virginia, Tennessee and Lake and Lake Kelso in Geauga Geauga Park District's sandy deposits along the ancient shores of the Cleveland and the Western Reserve, we will these are special North Carolina. County, Triangle Lake in Swine Creek Reservation, forerunners of Lake Erie. Euclid Avenue east hear a lot about the history of the immigrants Examples: Deep ravines of Portage County (access by places-the of runs along the shore whp settled this land. We will hear about North Chagrin Reservation, permit from the Ohio Division Mixed mesophytic of one of these ancient lakes known as Lake scientific advances and industrial growth. But original building ravines along the Grand of Natural Areas and Preserves). forest Warren. Sand barrens are one of the rarest we also should celebrate our natural River, Vermilion Mixed mesophytic blocks of our Riverine marsh natural communities'in our region, and in heritage-:-the natural communities of land, Reservation, Black River (moderately moist) forests Riverine marshes fonnerly 1990 the Cleveland Museum of Natural plants and animals that evolved in this region bioregional home. Reservation, Euclid Creek have several dominant occurred at the mouths of rivers History purchased within Ashtabula County over thousands of years. L ______~ ______' Reservation, Big Creek canopy trees, in contrast to flowing into Lake Erie. The the only high-quality beach ridge sand barrens In this article, we list some.ofthe major Reservation of Lake Metroparks, Sand Run the beech-maple forest. Common members of marshes at the mouth of the remaining in northeastern Ohio. This North ecosystem types in the region and tell where the canopy include tulip, sugar maple, beech, Park of Summit County Metro Parks. Cuyahoga described in accounts Kingsville sand barren represents the last of you ·can see living examples today. The . black cherry, red maple, basswood, cucumber Swamp forest of early settlers resembled the once common sand barrens and may be ecosystem definitions are based on an exhibit magnolia, white elm, red oak and tupelo. When the first settlers arrived, the leveL plain marshes that still exist just viewed with pennission from the museum's by the Botany Department of the Cleveland Mixed rnesophytic forests occur on rich of downtown Cleveland, Lakewood, G~enville upstream from the mouth of the botany department. Museum of Natural History. middle and lower valley slopes and and was swamp forest that had Chagrin River. The few We urge you to seek these places out-go abandoned river terraces, Typical wildflowers developed on the bottom deposits of remaining riverine marshes are Fen to them, appreciate their distinctive characters, of this forest include blue cohosh, black Fens have always been rare wetland features forerunners to Lake Erie. Some of the ancient important "reeding and nursery and learn how to protect them. For these are cohosh, Dutchman's breeches, wild ginger, lakes that covered what is now Cleveland areas for many Lake·Eric fish. on the landscape of Ohio, and many of the special places-the original building blocks of white trillium and hepatica. This forest type were more than 100 feet higher than modem Examples: Arcola Creek and state's rare and endangered plants and our bioregional home. has the most spectacular'fall cq' or display due Lake Erie. Beach ridges across the. flats that the west end cfMentor Marsh in invertebrates are restricted to fens. Most high­ to the many canopy members . quality Ohio fens are associated with large • developed along the former lake shorelines U~land marsh in Geauga County. Lake County.

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TWO HUNDRED YEARS LATER glacial gravel deposits, the same regions Reservation along Tinkers Creek, view of a streams. The beds provide important breeding where Ice Age bogs are often found. Northern slump from Lake Metroparks Hidden Valley and nursery cover for many kinds of fish. plants, I~ft behind from the glacial ite front Park (not park property), along the Chagrin Examples: At the mouth of the Cuyahoga and called the Ice Age relicts, inhabit fens and River in Bentleyville, Gates Mills, Hunting River, E. 55th St. Marina, Vennilion River bogs. The group of relict plants that grows in Valley and Moreland Hills. bed. fens tends to be different than the kind of· plants found in bogs, since bogs are acidic Palustrine sand plain Prairie habitats while fens are charged with alkalinity Level sandy shores protected from waves of Tallgrass prairies dominated by tall native from carbonates within glacial gravel deposits. Lake Erie by features such as breakwalls, the grasses and members of the sunfl0'!Ver family Examples: Eagle Creek State Nature peninsula of Cedar Point and the sand spit at were uncommon in the Western Reserve. The Preserve, Holden Arboretum, Gott Fen State East Harbor State Park harbor a rare plant Castalia Prairie, once covering more than Nature Preserve in Portage County (access by community known as the palustrine sand 3,000 acres in western Erie County, was the permit from the Ohio Division of Natural . plain. East of Cleveland this community largest in our region. Small hillside prairies Areas and Preserves), Herrick Preserve Nature probably existed .along the shores of several are widely scattered on slumping valley walls Preserve in Portage County (access by permit beach ponds that were present at the west end within the Cuyahoga and Grand Riveryalleys from the Ohio Chapter of the Nature of Mentor Marsh prior to marina construction but not the Chagrin. Some floodplain in the late 1920s. The palustrine sand plain meadows on the Black, Cuyahoga, and Grand Conservancy at 614/486-4194). community is characterized by sparsely River are locally dominated by prairie grasses. Bog vegetated sandy flats: Plants that compose the Big bluestem. Indian grass and prairie Kettle bogs are among the rarest natural community can remain donnant in underwater cordgrass dominate the tall grass prairie. The communities in Ohio, confined to the shores sediments for decades during years when the thick, deep roots of prairie grasses are superior of glacial lakes. Swampy flats surrounding lake level is high. When the level falls again, soil builders. They built the deep black soils bog lakes are layered with decomposed plant the community flourishes on the newly of the Midwest from northwestern Indiana to remains called peat. Quaking mats of living exposed flats. Nebraska. sphagnum moss encircle any open water areas, Examples: Headlands Dunes Nature Examples: Brecksville Nature Center and the moss creates a very acidic medium Preserve at Mentor Headlands State Park, Prairie Restoration Project, Black Rjver that provides habitat for many rare plants. Lake Metroparks Veterans Park and Indi~ Reservation, Mentor Marsh State Nature Bogs generally harbor relicts of boreal Point where Paine Creek empties into the Preserve (by the Marsh House), Rocky River vegetation that moved south in front of the Grand River, and along the sandy washes of Reservation east of Trailside Museum, Lake glacial ice sheets. At the tum of the century the Grand, Chagrin, Cuyahoga, and Black Metroparks Riverview Park. there w~re nine high-quality tamarack bogs in rivers. Ohio, and the three of those that remain today Sand dune Sand dunes and low sandy beaches with wind­ are located in Geauga and Portage County Aquatic bed blown sands are relatively uncommon along southeast of Cleveland. The aquatic bed community, composed of the Ohio shore of Lake Erie, though some of Examples: Fern Lake Bog owned by the submersed and floating vascular plants, once Cleveland's first residents describe a sandy One for tbe ages: Red oak in Cleveland's . Photo by Joel Hausennan Cleveland Museum of Natura I History (access thrived within the clear, shallow waters of beach at the western mouth of the Cuyahoga by permission only), Lake Kelso in the Burton Lake Erie, tributary rivers and in large glacial River. The dune speCies of Mentor Headlands Wetlands of the Geauga Park District lakes such as East Twin Lake, Brady Lake, and Ashtabula Beach may have grown on the (restricted access), Flat Iron Bog of the Nature Congress Lake and Chippewa Lake. Turbidity Moses Cleaveland trees is detrimental to most deep-water plants, and sandy beach at the Cuyahoga mouth before Conservancy (call 614/486-4194 for pollution has eliminated many of the plants breakwalls were constructed. The natural landscape ofthe Western Reserve was . to grow off the beaten path? Were you a warrior? permission). that once grew in Cleveland's lakes and Examples: Mentor Headlands, Lake Shore transformed in a flash-in a head-long rush of Were you especially cunning? Did you work hard to Slump Park in Lake County, Arcola Creek development and exploitation beginning in the early cultivate friendly land owners over the years? And Another rare plant community in Park . . 1800s. The change is so recent, infact, that there are · after you escaped the ax, what combination of good the region is the slump, which So profoundly altered ..• living witnesses who remember what the original genes and favorable habitat allowed you to overcome occurs at a few sites on steep In our day it is almost impossible for the average city dweller to Channel pond marshes forest was like. These witnesses are the IIMoses all the other assaults--

8 EcoCil)' ClEVElANd 0 February 1996 EcoCil)' ClEVElANd 0 February 1996 9 Habitat inventory A plant community is a group of plant species which tends to occur together under similar environmental cogditions. They form assemblages of plants which are recognizable entities such as beech-maple forests, bogs , and prairies. . The Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves has Shaped by ice undertaken a two-year project to inventory, classify ahd rank natural plant communities in Ohio's Lake Erie 8y Holly Glaser sands and clays moving within place. These are called "glacial drainage, an area which encompasses approximately the the ice. erratics. n These rocks are fonned If the winter snow hasn't melted northern third of the state. The project is being funded by The sandy beaches of the of tightly interlocking crystals, completely by July, it could be a U.S. EPA grant in coordination with The Nature Pacific coast, Cape Cod and the start of another ice age. As some too small to see without a Conservancy's Great Lakes Initiative. Mentor Headlands are all made magnifying lens, and are snow piles up, the six-sided This effort builds upon plant community surveys of billions of pieces of the same extremely hard. They come from crystals lose their delicate points which were undertaken by tbe division in the late L970s size rock. Moving water has the Canadian north and were and early 1980s wben a state-wide plant community and start to recrystallize into sorted the rock carried in the i~e classification was developed. This classification system. chunky blobs of ice. Like a ball by size. Slow as glaciers which is currently used by the division to document of Silly Putty, a pile of ice that is waters can move pushed into this occurrences of sign ificant plant communities, will be more than 100 feet high is too smaller rocks. area. Crystals of reviewed and modified as necessary, A ranking system is heavy to support itself and The rolling shiny black and being developed to designate the best remaining spreads out under its own rocks of white mica, examples of each community type. Sites will be ranked weight. As more and more snow whitewater quartz, and according to such qualities as species diversity, the falls, the ice pile gets higher and mountain feldspar make presence of rare species, the degree of human disturbance Liquid gold from the bioregion heavier, the pressure on the ice -and the presence of non-native species. increases, and the ice begins to streams bounce up the granites. between Some rocks By identifying the best remaining examples of each Early spring in Northeast Ohio brings the • Raw maple sap is quite watery. flow out from its center. This community type, the division can better set priorities for stationary show the return of the buzzards to Hinckley, the Many gallons of sap have to be boile~ forms the moving ice we call a land acquisition and protection. By protecting high . boulders which mating dance of the woodcock, and down to make one gallon of maple syrup. glacier. Glaciers are more than layering of quality planf communities of each type, the habitat for .can be moved metamorphic migrations of salamanders to woodland That means a lot of slogging through giant ice cubes.filled with many of the state1s r~e plants and animals can be only by the faster waters of rocks which have been heated spawning I?ools. But for many people in snow and mud with heavy loads of sap. rocks-they are active, moving, preserved. There are also examples of significant plant flood and snowmelt. Larger under pressure. They come in all the bioregion, the surest sign of spring is (Although many maple sugaring plastic masses of ice. communities, such as·old-growth forests, which warrant rocks drop from the water as a sizes from the small pebbles at the start of maple sugaring. operations now use plastic tubing to Twelve thousand years ago, a protection even though they contain few or no rare . Here are a few bioregional facts: collect sap.) stream 'slows down . Barely the beach to rocks the size of species. . mile high sheet of ice flowed • Maple sugaring is an ancient • The sap of other trees has less sugar moving water will still carry houses. Anywhere you see Since the vast majority of Ohio's landscape has been from the north for the fourth tradition begun by Native Americans. content than the sap of sugar maples, mud and fine clay particles. erratics, you are walking in transformed by timbering, as well as agricuttural, urban time in a million years . The base Maple syrup is one of the North Glaciers are a different story .. glacier territory. and industrial development, fcw high quality natural which is \~hy syrup producers prize the of the ice was a relentless America's oldest agricultural products. Ice carries all s iz~ of rock, from The hills and valleys of the communities persist in the state. The plant communities maple. grinding m'achine. The internal • Maple sugaring is truly a distinctive boulders to clay size, at the same which still occur in the Lake Erie basin range from flow of ice within the glacier preglacial landscape were part of our region of North America, Maple sugaring in March deciduous and hemlock forests tb prairies, sand barrens, time. When the ice melts. this completely changed by the dependent upon forest type and climate. This bioregional tradition can be enjoyed carried rock from the base to the savannahs, bogs. fens. marshes and sandy beaches. collection of different sized repeated advance and retreat of We are at the edge of the continent's out in the sugarbush of a number of local front of the ice, like a conveyer Examples of each of the plant cominunity types are being material is left behind. The ice. Whether you live in the maple sugar region- the cold, northern parks. Call for program times. belt, piling rocks up at the edge surveyed. characteristic unsorted mix of flatlands of Parma, the rolling hardwood region stretching from • Cleveland Metroparks Rocky River of the ice. Rocks from the earth's Two areas with noteworthy concentrations of unusual sand, clay, boulders and pebbles hills of Hinckley or the steep Minnespta to Maine and north into Reservation Maple Grove Picnic Area surface were plucked up by the plant communities have been surveyed so far. Summit, dropped by a glacier is known as escarpment of Murray Hill, the Canada. The top producing states are (734-6660). moving ice and carried into the Portage and Geauga;counties have bogs, fens and large till. land you see around you is a Vennont, New York, Michigan and • Geauga Park District Swine Creek body of the glacier. Some rocks swamp forests which contain many rare, northern plant On a walk through the woods product of that earliest landscape Ohio .. The snowbelt area east of Reservation on Hayes Road in Ireld at the base of the ice were species. Lucas County in northwestern Ohio is home to . in Northeast Ohio, you may find and, most of all, the changes Cleveland is the top producing area in Middlefield (285-2222). dragged over the land, leaving the Oak Openings, a region with unique "ecological the shales and sandstones of the brought by the moving ice. 0 Ohio. Nowhere else in the world is maple • Hate Farm and Village in the gouges in surface rocks. Soft systems and many rare plants and animals. The area has Paleozoic ocean. Remains of the sugaring a commercially viable industry. Cuyahoga Valley, through March 10 rocks, such as the shales and Holly Glaser is a naturalist and extensive sand deposits which, depending on water earliest known sharks, some 360 • Sugaring begin s with the early sandstones of the Cleveland l evels~ provide for very unusual communities ranging (666-3711). research assistant at the Cleveland spring sap runs. Alternating freezing and million years old, have been from'wet prairie meadows and swamp forests to dry oak • Lorain County Metro Parks Carlisle area, were ground into clay and Metroparks' Garfield Park Nature thawing conditions produce pressure in found in these rocks. But as you savannahs, oak woodlands and sand barrens. Visitor Center on Diagonal Road. sand. The harder crystalline Center. This article is reprinted the tree to stimulate good sap flow, look along the ground, or from the January 1996 issue ofthe Work on this project will continue for the next 12 through March 17 (1-800-LCM-PARK). rocks of the far north were especially when nighttime temperatures walk down a stream, you can Metroparks' newsletter. months, when important plant communities in other parts rounded and smoothed by the are below freezing and daytim~ find rounded rocks which are of the drainage wil l be surveyed. Sweet memories abras ive action of the rocks, temperatures rise above 40 degrees. Senior masters of the Geauga County art much older and very out of -Greg Schneider, Map le sugaring can be done in warmer of maple sugaring will share their secrets Ohio Division 0/ Natural Areas and Preserves (reprinledfrom the division's climates, but it's harder to collect enough and stories at 2 p.m. March 30 at the January·February 1996 newslefler) sap when cold weather doesn't linger into Geauga Park District's Meyer Center, the spring. 9160 Robinson Rd. in Chardon.

10 EcaCiT)' ClEVElANd 0 February t 996 EcoCiT)' ClEVElANd 0 February 1996 11 ECOCITY DIGEST ECOCITY DIGEST On the waterfront world via a solar-charged laptop ·For most of 200 years Cleveland computer and a digital camera link Undermined by sprawl turned its civic back to the . to a World Wide Web site on the Neighborhood leaders in Cleveland are becoming more and more waterfront. Only in recent years has Internet. lnfor:mation from the aware o/the devastating impact a/urban sprawl on their it sought to reconnect people to the expedition-including a searchable communities. In the/ollowing article. Jeanne ShaUen. the president lake and the river..At a lecture database, photos, and audiovisual a/the Friends o/Shaker Square, discusses how redevelopment several months ago at the recordings--could also be made efforts in anyone neighborhood are under-mined by regional , Alex into an multimedia CD~ROM. patterns o!oufmigration. TIu! arh'cle is adapted/rom the Friends of Krieger Qf the Harvard Graduate The expedition begins May 4 Shaker Square newsletter ofFebruary/March J 996, School of Design listed objectives with a one-month tour of the Great o for a successful waterfront strategy, Lakes Bioregion. Then McKenzie By Jeanne Shatten including continued improvements plans to attend the United Nation's Last month I happened to read a back issue of EcoCity Cleveland, in access to the water's edge, Conference on Human Settlements and to my surprise it included Cleveland neighborhood celebration of 19th (Habitat II) in lnstanbul, Turkey, in development organizations on a of constituencies hurt by century industrial architecture, June. After the conference, the ' list sprawl and urban abandonment. Why did say that sprawl affected increased housing on the expedition will continue around the it waterfront, creation of a holiday world unti l June 1998. us, and wby am I writing about sprawl now? environment through design and For more infonnation, contact . I am convinced that efforts to sustain and r.evitalize urban activities, and maintenance ofa McKenzie at 216/281-5297. He is neighborhoods like Shaker Square are undermined by sprawling Outrage of the month sense of awe of being at the edge. seeking funding, equipment development patterns. Although Friends of Shaker Square focusses "ft is with sadness and disappointment that we are witnessing the donations, and volunteers to on pres~rving our neighborhood by encouraging investment here, Treating creeks like sewers: The city of Cleveland is constructing "There is a mythic quality of a building of the detention basin in Ambler Park: as a flood control detention basin on Daan Brook just upstream of University Circle. inhabiting an edge next to a body support the project. our community is still vulnerable unless we are part of a regional measure," wrote Nancy King Smith, executive director of the Shaker of water," Krieger'said, adding that strategy. that pr.ioritizes existing urban areas like Shaker Square over The dam, ac~ess road and channeled creek bed will leave permanent Lorain County parks plan Lakes Regional Nature Center, in the center's recent newsletter. uThe Cleveland's waterfront has the new fringe development. scars m Ambler Park, and it's not even certain that the facility will The Lorain County Metro Parks 1 Joint Committee on Doan Brook and the Nature Center had urged the potential to be world-class. Our revitalization efforts are threatened by pressures that prevent flooding as intended. Last year, the city of Cleveland Heights has just adopted a n~w ten-year city of Cleveland to consider other solutions to the problem of stopped Cleveland from building an eveD uglier stormwater detention plan. Recommendations include encourage development away from Cleveland and its inner-ring flooding that would keep the natural watershed intact The presence of As the Clinic burns structure farther upstream. Cleveland kept the current project secret to opening of the North Ridgeville suburbs toward places like Mentor, Solon, Medina and Westlake. the road and structure for the new dam serves as a clear reminder that Members of the Greater Cleveland prevent citizen protest. Reservation, identifying park sites Since our region's population and employment is stable, this creates the solutions to the problems created by our built environment are Coalition for a Clean Environment The project is another example of using big engineering projects to ' in the Columbia/Eaton area, sprawl without growth. New housing developments, commercial complex, difficult, and need our unflagging attention and willingness feel they are being stone-wall ed by control stonnwater, ;rather than employing more ecological, completing the plyria~to-Kipton centers and industrial parks are subsidized with public dollars for to look ahead for long-term ways to address hutlJan interference in the the . Months ago, community-based methods to retain water on the land and beal whole Bikeway, and continuing to roads and highways, water and sewer expansion in an natural process." they met with a Clinic watersheds. representative to request develop land acquisition uncoordinated fashion ,and without regard to the effect on the urban infonnation about medical waste partnerships with communities core, Asjob·s move to the outer edges of the region away from the and solid waste incinerators at the throughout the county. urban center, not only is our tax base eroded, but we lose our Pressure points hospital, but little information has The plan is available for public community and our identity, been forthcoming. review at the park office, 12882 What our neighborhood needs is corporate. civic, religious and • Transportation priorities more convenient for people to Business, the amount of industrial u'nder study is the larger and more Neighborhood residents and Diagonal Rd. in LaGrange. political leadership that understands the relationship between back on track:· Lorain County drive and park. land in use in the region jumped important issue of how adding environmentalists in the coalition Rail plan side-tracked growth on the edges of the region and the resulting stress on the Commissioner Betty Blair, is • LTV's private-public 74 percent in the past decade, transportation capacity will note that hospital incinerators are a In January, tlie Ohio Rail center. Each year thousands of the region's families move farther already showing her mettle as the bridge: Eyebrows are also being consuming most of the improved promote sprawl and the demand major source of hazardous, Development Commission thrilled out toward the metropolitan fringe. With that kind of a trend, how new president of the Northeast raised over attempts to divert industrial land available. Now for even more transportation chlorinated substances like dioxin. rail advocates in the state by can we sustain our public transportation system? How do we pay Ohio Areawide Coordinating public clean air funds to buil d there is great pressure to extend infrastructure. Nor will the Last year. the coalition helped announcing it would see~ funds to for decent schools so young families will want to live here? How do Agency. She recently beat back LTV Steel a bridge over the roads, water and sewer to open study's.analysis consider the costs persuade Mt. Sinai Medical Center develop modern passenger service we market our commercial areas and our office corridors so attempts to delay implementation Cuyahoga River-from LTV sprawling new areas for to Cuyahoga County of lost to scrap plans for a new along the "3-C" (Cleveland­ businesses will want to locate here? incinerator. They intend to turn up of ~ much-needed ranking system property on one side to LTV development. The phenomenon popUlation and tax base. Columbus~Cincinnati) Corridor People love cities. It may be Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle or for transportation projects in the property on the other . . gives added urgency to efforts to o E-Check debacle: the heat on the politically powerful and a corridor across northern Ohio Washington, D.C. Even if they choose not to live in an urban area, region. The NOACA Board will • Bath's vote: Bath Township clean and assemble developable Northeast Ohio is betting that Clinic by bringing famed Love between Pittsburgh and Toledo. most people value the unique flavor of urban lif""';'the diversity of sites in older urban areas like the Canal toxics activists Lois Gibbs to now vote on the system at its residents will vote March 19 on a enhanced tailpipe testing will But more recently the commission people, activity, entertainment, architecture, culture and history in March 8 meeting. 0.98 mill tax levy to preserve city of Cleveland. reduce vehicle emissions enough town on April 18. has been leaning toward making cities. People are attracted to Sbaker Square for all of those things. parts of the 1,500-acre Firestone o 1-90 widening: ODOT's for the region to meet federal air • Clean air parking garage? World sustainability tour commuter rail service between That is why we are as strong as we are. That is why we have a estate as a natural area. The vote plan to widen 1-90 in western . pollution standards. But, thanks Eyebrows are being raised at the Local transportation activist Ryan Cleve l and ~ Akron-Canton its top membership of 1,300 bouseholds and people living and working is being watched closely by Lorain County is now the subject to start-up problems by a Northeast Ohio Areawide McKenzie is planning an ambitious priori"ty, even though it would cost here who grapple with the problems indigenous to city life-safety opponents of urban sprawl for of a "major investment study," a bungling E-Check contractor, Coordinating Agency over tour around the world to seek out more and serve less of the state's issues, aging, housing, etc. But we need a regional strategy that rumored plans by the state to signs that the publi c is willing to requirement for big transportation long lines of motorists are up in successful examples of community popUlation. strengthens our position, not a policy, or lack of one, that pulls pay for more open space. projects. After a good deal of arms and politicians want to ditch spend clean air funds to build a sustainability. His Green THREAD Rai l advocates are now in a prodding, ODOT is studying the program. If we have this resources out and away from us. parking garage for the Great • Clean land wanted': Real (Technology, Housing, Resources, tricky position-trying to get the 3- alternatives to adding much trouble checking tailpipes, The good news is that there is now a coordinated effort by transit Lakes Science Center in estate brokers are saying that Economics, Agro-forestry, Design) C project back on track while conventional lanes in the imagine how tough it's going to advocates, community planners. environmental activists, university Cleveland. Funds fr~m the' federal there is a shortage of new Expedition will cover over 30,000 ·trying not to appear being against corridor- alternatives such as be to affect the root cause of the faculty and other leaders to herp create new tools to improve our Congestion Mitigation! Air industrial park sites in Northeast miles and 60 countries-mos.tly by the commuter rail plan. For more Ohio. According to a recent high~occupancy vehicle lanes, problem-sprawling development region'S development patterns. Let us hope that a regional approach Quality program are for projects bicycle. information, call the Ohio Ostendorf-Morris Co. survey park-n-rjde lots, improved bus patterns that make us drive to planning and development will arrest the sprawl and create a that reduce vehicle emissions and McKenzie plans to Associa~ion of Railroad Passengers reported in Crain's Cleveland service and commuter rail. Not everywhere. sustainable region where a1l communities will thrive. traffic congestion, not make it communicate his discoveries to the at 891-0ARP. EcoC iTY ClEVElANd 0 February 1996 13 12 EcoCiTY ClEVElANd 0 February 1996 ~------.

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Another stadium could take that as a challenge. We March t 5-t7 March 23 question could start competing to see who Permits to pollute Citizens Conference on Dioxin and other Black River Audubon "reservoirs and The Second Luddite Congress: Synthetic Hormone Disrupters in Baton Rouge, Lost in the debate about what to do could be the most ecological city. It Here are some Ohio EPA actions of interest from recent weeks. For pancakes" field trip to see early spring migrants A revolution of hearts LA· For information on this national event to with Cleveland's football stadium would be better than football!) complete and up-to·date lists of penn it activities in your county, at Oberlin Reservoir, Caley Wildlife Refuge, Nearly 200 years plan strategies against endocrine disruptors. call has been,the fate of Donald Gray watch for weekly legal notiCes in your local newspaper. For more Wellington Reservoir, Findley State Park and after the Luddites Annual plant sales 919/490-0747. Garden just north of the stadium. detailed information, call the Ohio EPA Northeast District.Office in Spencer Lake Wildlife Area. Call 647-27 11 for burned factories in Local Soil and Water Conservation details. Constructed as part of the Great Twinsburg, 425-9171 March 16 England to protest Districts are .now selling low-cost Lakes Exposition of 1936-37, the Workshop on bringing nature into the March 24 the beginning of the seedlings and plants for erosion • . garden "is a valuable oasis of Public hearing classroom, 2 p.m. at the Shaker Lakes Regional Lake Metroparks Bike Expo, nOQn to 4 p.m. at Industrial lakefront green space that is well control, wildlife habitat Public infonnation session and hearing on draft permit for Nature Center. Call 321-5935 to register. Penitentiary Glen in Kirtland. Revolution, the by enhancement, windbreaks and nonhazardous waste deep injection well for brine at Ak.zo Salt mine Center for Plain Living is sponsoring a used migratory birds. This March 16 March 27 environmental improvement. Call in Cleveland, 6:30 p.m. at the Carnegie winter a long-eared owl roosting in Knowing your bioregion, a workshop to get Monthly meeting of the Northeast Ohio Group Luddite Congress, April 13-15, to queslion your county's district for more West Brancb, 1900 Fulton Rd., Cleveland. the garden drew birders from miles acquainted with your special Earth Place, 2 p.m. ofthe Sierra Club, 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland the computerized, genet icall y~altered world around. information. Findings and orders at the Crown Point Ecology Learning Center, Metroparks Rocky River Nature Center. of the global economy. Speakers will include Drinking water-Village of South Amherst agreed to perfoon 3220 Ira Road in Bath. Call 666-9200. historian Kirkpatrick Sale, un-schooler John Earth Day contest March 28-29 Environmental camps required monitoring and to place the operation of its water system i~ Taylor Gatto, ecologist Bill McKibben, The Earth Day Coalition is March 15-17 "Brown fields and Greenfields: Opportunities The Cuyahoga Valley the responsible charge of a certified public water system operator. Christian communitarian Authur Gish, farmer sponsoring an art, poetry and essay Buzzards return to Cleveland Metroparks and Challenges f9r Metropolitan Environmental Education Center is and wdter Gene Logsdon, nature writer pollution hosting contest for school students in the Water Hinckley Reservation. Park rangers will stage an Development," a program of the Lincoln Chemical Solvents, Cleveland, waste treatment system for David Kline and many more. summer eight-county area. Winners will official buzzard watch starting at 6:30 a.m. Institute of Land Policy that wi ll examine urban solvents. Friday. March 17 is Buzzard Sunday featuring a The congress will be held at the Stillwater camps with receive cash prizes and certificates brownfield redevelopment strategies and urban Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Cuyahoga Heights, pancake breakfast at Hinckley Elementary sprawl. The program will be held at the Friends Meeting envltonmental and will have their work displayed placement of sewage sludge incinerator ash in south;ftll area by School on SR 303. Marriottt Society Center in Cleveland. Tuition House in BamesviUe, themes. A at EARTHFest '96, which will be Southerly Treatment Plant. $215. Call 1-800-LAND-USE for registration OH. For more four-week March 16-17 April 21 at the Cleveland TRW, Euclid, groundwate~ remediation for Argo-Tech Corp. information. information, call Annual conferencc'ofthe Ohio Ecological Food camp at Hale Metropaiks Zoo. Revlis Corp., NortOR, discharge to WolfCreek. 800/893-3702, ext. and ~arm Association at Muskingum College in March 29 Farm and F.or more information about the Crawford Fitting, Macedonia, discharge to Tinkers Creek. ·5833. New Concord. This conference is an Village in Cleveland Hopkins Airport, discharge to Silver Creek. "Why God is an Environmentalist," a talk contest,. call 281-6468. inspirational learning experience for anyone Bath offers children ages 9-14 a Hall Chemical Wickliffe, discbarge to Lake Erie. about spiritual ecology by author and pastor H. t interested in a safe and sustainable food system. Paul Santmire, 7 p.m. at Look About Lodge in touch of nature and a taste of New Web sites View. The district's board meetings are the Air pollutIon Call (614) 294-FOOD for registration the South Chagrin Reservation. Call 247-7075- pioneer life in the 1800s. Call 666- For all you Internet surfers, we've second Tuesday of each month. Call 524-6580 . S.K. WeHman, Brook Park, hot manufacturing line. infonnation. for more infonnation. for details. 3711 for details. come across some interesting new Components Reclaim, EUClid, furnace to clean organic The River Run Arts-Earth web sites: contaminants from metal parts. March IS March 30 April 10 Studies Camp at the environmental • The Cleveland State Spray.Cure Co., Madison, operation for mixing cement and sand "The Deatb Spiral at CEI: The Statewide conference on the public health Quarterly forum of the Cleveland education center near Peninsula University College of Urban to bag as groUI. ~ Cosls and Dangers of Nuclear impacts of energy use sponsored ·by the Ohio Neighborhood Development Corporation, Power," a talk by Larry Leonard, Environmental Council in cooperation with the offers earth studies and a full range Affairs has created PPG lnduslries, Franklin Twp, Lime Lake reclamation project. featuring a discussion of the new funding corporate financial specialist and Campa'ign for an Energy Efficient Ohio. Call 'ofthe arts for boys and girls NeighborhoodLink, which Avalon Precision Casting, Brook Park, 3 gas reheating furnaces partnership between Neighborhood Progress . 24-veteran of the Cleveland Electric (614) 224-4900 for more infonnation. entering sixth through ninth grades. and 3 electric induc.tion furnaces. Inc., the Enterprise Foundation and Local provides information about mlIIuminating Co. and Centerior Energy whose Call 673-4252. Westinghouse Electric, Cleveland. coating mix and drying ovens. March 31 Initiatives Support Corporation, 9 a.m. at CSU's communitY services and resources recent book accuses the companies of cover-ups, Aviation Product Support, Mentor. cbemioal cleaning line. Landscaping for butterflies and birds, a slide Mather Mansion. 2605 Euclid Ave. in Cleveland. The site provides . secret political deals and stock manipulation, 7 Cincinnati's Geon Co., Avon Lake, PVC compounds. pr9gram at the Guyahoga Valley National links to topics including education, p.m. at the Cleveland State University College of April 13 green neighborhood PMX Ohio. Euclid, auto finish processes. Recreation Area Happy Days Visitor Center, Project Wild workshop on incorporating nature­ family services, housing and home Urban Affairs, E. 18th Street and Euclid Avenue. IMAGO, a nonprofit organization Water/sewer line extensions 1:30 p.m. . related activities into school curricula, 9 a.m. to in Cincinnati, has just released a maintenance, RTA, government March 19 Harperfointe Estates 2, Solon. April t 3 p.m. at the Shaker Lakes Regional Nature video on how it is working to tum services, employment services, Meeting of the Greater Cleveland Coalition for Kingston Way Subdivision, North Royalton. Friends of the Crooked River meeting, 7:30 Center. Ca11321-5935 to register. the city's working-class Price Hill libraries, health care and Orange. Grove Estates. Orange. a Clean Environment, 5 p.m. at Martin Luther p.m. at the Peninsula Library on Riverview April t3 neighborhood in an ecological neighborhood organizations. The Woodfield Estates No.2, Avon. King Library, 1962 Stokes Ave. Road south of SR 303. Environmental Education Day featuring hands­ community. The video shows how site is a partnership between CSU, Gamellia Subdivision No.7, Avon Lake. March 20 April 2 . on activities about the Cuyahoga River, 1·4 p.m. 'residents have preserved urban the city of Cleveland, the Shenandoah Subdivision No.2, Brunswick. Spring Equinox celebration, 7 p.m. at the Talk about the importance of urban forestry.to at the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation open space, planted trees, Cleveland Public Library, the Hidden Knolls, Rootstown Twp. Crown Point Ecology Learning Center, 3220 Ira communities, an Environmental Town Hall Area's Happy Days Yisitor Center off SR 303. renovated an abandoned house as Neighborhood Centers Association Canterbury·on-the-Lakes Phase 4. Hudson. Road in Bath. Call 666-9200. event, noon at the Shaker Lakes Regional an ecological model, and and Ameritech. Citizens will be Aylshire· Subdivision., Solon. April· I 9-20 March 20 Nature Center, 2600 South Park Blvd. in Shaker established an outdoor ecological Bridgeport ViHage Subdivision, North Olmsted. Ohio Trails and Riparian Greenways· able to access the site at 12 public Program on water quality of Lake Erie, the Heights . . learning center. North Park Estates Phase I, SQlon. Conference at the Cherry Valley Lodge in locations in the' city. The Web Cuyahoga River and Doan Brook, 7:30 p.m. Newark, sponsored by the Ohio Rails·to·Trails The focus is how real folks in a Overlook Subdivision·No. 3, Seven Hills. April 6 address is tlhttp://Iittle.nhlink.neU''. MacIntosh Fanus Phase 4, Broadview Heights. at the Shaker Lakes Regional Nature Conservancy. For information, call (614) 224- real city neighborhood can live Heron courtship, a hike to • The National Wildlife Falls Pointe, Olmsted Falls. Center. 2600 South Park Blvd. in Shaker 8707, more sustainably. Copies of video observe beron rookery, 8 a.~. Federation'S Great Lakes Natural Sprague Road Subdivision No.4, Seven Hills. Heights. are $17 from IMAGO, 533 Enright Station Road Bridge Trailhead April 21 Resource Center is at Preserve of Strongsville, Strongsv~lIe. . Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45205, March 22 of the Cuyahoga Valley National EARTHFest '96 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the ''http://www.great- Richwood Subdivision Phase 2, Richmond Heights. Wetland monitoring workshop to observe Recreation Area. (513/921-5124). . . Ohio's largest lakes. net: 2200/0/partnersiN WF/hot Bridge Creek, Auburn Twp. the health of a wetland from the numbers of (Incidentally, the folks at April 9 environmental event, sponsored by the Earth lO Bridgewater Village Phase 2.. 3, Chardon. amphibians, 7 p.m. at the Cleveland IMAGO say they want to make lhot-nwf.html • Monthly board meeting of the Day Coalition. Call 281·6468 for more Sharonlee Subdivision Phase 3·4, Mentor. Metroparks North Chagrin Reservation • The Ohio Bicycle Federation C uyahoga Soil and Water information about attending, volunteering or Cincinnati "the ecological city of Meadow Lane Court, Sheffield Twp. Rogers Road parking lot. Call 473-3370 to is at .. http://www.ohioweb.coml Conservation District, 7 p.m. at exhibiting. the Midwes.t." Maybe'Clevelanders Avon Reserve at Summer Hill Phase I, Avon. register. OBF". 6100 W. Canal Rd. in Valley

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