March 15, 2025. – 9am – 3pm Woody vegetation management with fire The preserve, accessed by permit only, contains an alkaline fen and features a high-quality prairie fen community. A mile-long boardwalk runs across the fen meadow. During this work trip, we will be leveling the sunken parts of the boardwalk and replacing some decayed […]
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April 26, 2025. – 9 am – 3 pm Garlic mustard and dame’s rocket pull Join us at Davey Woods to enjoy a spring day in the majestic forest, watch spring wildflowers, and work on garlic mustard and dame rocket removal. Last spring our group removed many trash bags of these invasive plants, but we
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February 22, 2025 – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Woody vegetation removal and winter burn The landscape of this preserve always inspires curiosity – it features eskers, kames and kettles, and tells us the story of ancient glaciers, meltwater channels cut through the ice, and landforms influenced by retreating ice sheets. We will return to
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January 11, 2025 – 9 am – 3 pm Milford Center Prairie is an old railroad right-of-way with a quality remnant of tallgrass prairie in the historical Darby Plains. The natural area supports at a number of different species of prairie plants. We will be removing woody vegetation that encroaches the site and threaten the
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Service in the Preserves has been busy, and we’d like your help! We are a part of Columbus Audubon, and our work trips take volunteers to many beautiful places that most people don’t get to see. We work hard, but we also have a lot of fun. If you’d like to help us, please follow
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By Natalia Nekrasova Do you know that Service in the Preserves and Columbus Audubon are one? I did not understand that Service in the Preserves (SIP) is a part of Columbus Audubon (CA), when I started volunteering with the SIP group. We worked at the state nature preserves all around Ohio and communicated with the
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