New USEPA Storm Water Permitting Requirements
On December 1, 2009 the US EPA issued a new Construction Storm Water rule affecting all new construction sites with over 10 acres of disturbed area. The new rule requires all
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Progress At Pearson: Expansion Under Way
BP Toledo Refinery has donated $50,000 to the Pearson Metropark expansion project, pushing the capital fundraising campaign past the halfway point. Cash donations and pledges from numerous small businesses, local
Sandy Ridge Reservation of the Lorrain County Metro Parks offers a local getaway.
After observing Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of summer, locals are embracing the concept of "staycation," looking to brown their skin, not blow their budgets. North Ridgeville’s Sandy Ridge Reservation
Progress is made in expansion, restoration at Pearson Metropark
With Pearson Metropark’s 75th anniversary approaching, work is progressing with the Oregon park’s roughly $5 million northern expansion, where a log cabin built in 1866 is being outfitted with wavy
Black Swamp Blues
The name ‘Black Swamp’ conjures images of a boggy quagmire with slippery amphibians and murky waters littered with lily pads and algae. Yet Northwest Ohio is built on this natural
Governor Strickland signs Executive Order 2008-04S “Implementing Common Sense Business Regulation”
Ohio has a rich history of business innovation and technological advancement. Ohio has long been a state that facilitates and promotes invention and innovation. Consequently, as the States economic landscape
Sandy Ridge offers hope for Lake Abram
Let’s look at two wetland projects. One, the Sandy Ridge Reservation in North Ridgeville, will serve as our gold standard. The other, at Lake Abram in southern Cuyahoga County, is
The Ohio Wetlands Foundation Gives to Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park
The Wetland Research Park was named in honor of the late Wilma H. Schiermeier, an Ohio State University alumnus who was concerned about clean air and water. Schiermeier dedicated in
Wetlands awash in creative banking funds
Ohio’s most recently restored wetland, a 33-acre site at the Hebron State Fish Hatchery in Licking County, is the product of an unlikely alliance of seemingly opposed interests – the
Sandy Ridge blunder a gem for birders
After the initial shock wore off, most of the birders I know got a good laugh out of the news a couple of weeks ago that the Ohio Environmental Protection