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Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve, Ohio (Swing State!) Edward M. Barrows

Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve, Ohio (Swing State!) Edward M. Barrows Laboratory of Entomology & Biodiversity Georgetown University Washington, D.C. September 2004. ESBNP is in northern Ohio, east of Toledo. Out in the boonies. The gate.

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Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve, Ohio (Swing State!) Edward M. Barrows

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  1. Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve, Ohio (Swing State!) Edward M. Barrows Laboratory of Entomology & Biodiversity Georgetown University Washington, D.C. September 2004

  2. ESBNP is in northern Ohio, east of Toledo.

  3. Out in the boonies. The gate.

  4. Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid July 2003

  5. Aesculus glabra, octandra, or a hybrid July 2003

  6. Entering the Preserve July 2003

  7. Entering the Preserve July 2003

  8. Entering the Preserve July 2003

  9. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

  10. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

  11. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. July 2003

  12. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. July 2003

  13. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

  14. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. species? June 2004

  15. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

  16. Farmland surrounds the Preserve. June 2004

  17. Silene cuculabus (Bladder Campion), European alien June 2004

  18. History circa 13,000 bp Lake Warren (5th ancestral lake of Lake Erie) produced a shore. ice sheet cool weather spruce forest Whisperwood.net

  19. History www.anselm.edu later Warmer weather, deciduous forest

  20. History circa 4,000 bp Warm, dry weather (xerothermic period) Much tall-grass prairie grew. Trish Murphy

  21. History Trish Murphy later Cool weather Deciduous forest returned. Prairie remnants remained.

  22. History 1600s Ohio was about 4% prairie (now almost no prairie). early 1900sE. L. Moseley (Ohio botanist) studied ESBSNP (= part of old Oxford Prairie). 1980sTNC bought 32 A. TNC transferred the land to the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves.

  23. History My short peeks of the Preserve 11 July 2003. I visited for the first time. 25 June 2004. I visited for the second time.

  24. Habitats of Erie Sand Barrens Nature Preserve 1. High, dry ridges 2. Wet depressions

  25. High, dry ridges

  26. High, dry ridges Plant Quiz!

  27. High, dry ridges Plant Quiz ?

  28. High, dry ridges ?

  29. High, dry ridges Rhus glabra (Smooth Sumac)

  30. High, dry ridges ?

  31. High, dry ridges Rhus typhina (Staghorn Sumac)

  32. High, dry ridges June 2004

  33. High, dry ridges June 2004

  34. High, dry ridges ?

  35. High, dry ridges Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien! July 2003

  36. High, dry ridges Verbascum thapsus (Great Mullein), alien!

  37. High, dry ridges ?

  38. High, dry ridges Rudbeckia hirta (Black-eyed Susan) July 2003

  39. High, dry ridges ?

  40. High, dry ridges Rosa sp. (rose) June 2004

  41. High, dry ridges Rosa sp. (rose)

  42. High, dry ridges ?

  43. High, dry ridges ?

  44. High, dry ridges Rosa sp. 2 (rose) July 2003

  45. High, dry ridges ?

  46. High, dry ridges Hypericum perfoliatum (Common St. John’s-wort), alien! July 2003

  47. High, dry ridges ?

  48. High, dry ridges Achillea millifolia (Yarrow), alien! July 2003

  49. High, dry ridges ?

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