Please join us Sunday, April 30, at 1 pm for an opening celebration for the Lindy Roosenburg Preserve, Athens Conservancy’s newest nature preserve. This exceptional 71-acre property just north of Athens showcases mature forests, scenic rock formations, and an abundance of wildflowers and wildlife. The land was purchased last year in memory of Selinde Roosenburg,…

Baker Preserve is a study site for an international research project investigating the role bedrock has on forest soil nutrient and carbon cycling. This project is a collaboration between soil researchers Jared DeForest, PhD (Ohio University) and Friederike Lang, PhD (University of Freiburg, Germany). Baker Preserve is unusual in that it has both limestone and…

[soliloquy id=”3978″] A big thank you to everyone who joined us for a fabulous Wildflower Walk on April 15. The sun was shining, wildflowers were all abloom, and we had a record number of flower-walkers on hand (or on foot, rather). Several groups set off from the Beaumont-Salina Trailhead, ambling along the Hockhocking-Adena Bikeway for…