PAST PLANT WALKS

Plant walks

This is a list of past plant walks with locations and leaders listed. Please check back to see when the next spring plant walk will take place.

April 2019Shafer Park in Westerville Ohio. Leading the walk were Metro Parks Assistant Resource Manager Carrie Morrow and Forest Ecologist Andrew Boose.

April 2018 – Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City Ohio. Leading the walk were Metro Park Naturalists, Carrie Morrow and Gregg Wittman who told the history of the 620-acre park located just eight miles south of downtown Columbus. 
 

April 2017 – Walhalla Ravine in Columbus Ohio. Plant Walk led by Cindy Decker, and a presentation on the role of Walhalla Ravine in the Underground Railraod led by Doreen Uhaus-Sauer.

April 2016 – Shale Hollow Preserve in Lewis Center Oh, led by Rick Gardner and Carrie Morrow.

April 2015 – John Beltz Retreat Center, led by Carrie Morrow and Michael Graziano.

April 2014 – Overbrook Ravine at N High St, led by ODNR botanist Greg Schneider.

April 2013 – Darby Creek Metro Park, led by Carrie Morrow and Debra Ruppersburg.

May 2012 – Darby Creek Metro Park, led by Carrie Morrow and Debra Ruppersburg.

May 2011 – Sharon Woods Metro Park, Westerville Oh, led by Carrie Morrow and Alison Shaw.

April 2010 –  Flint Ravine at Camp Mary Orton, led by Prof Bob Klips, OSU EEOB.

April 2009 – Indian Run Falls, led by Mime Migliore, Dublin Parks naturalist.

April 2008 – High Banks Metro Park, led by Susan Gervey, Metro Parks naturalist.

April 2007 – Overbrook Ravine at Indianola Ave, led by Susan Barrett of the Adena Brook Community (ABC).

April 2006 – Iuka Ravine, led by Greg Maynard and Cyane Gresham.

April 2005 – Bill Moose Ravine at the Ohio School for the Deaf Led by ODNR botanist Rick Gardner.

April 2004 – Overbrook Ravine at Indianola Ave, led by ODNR botanist Jim McCormac.

April 2003 – Flint Ravine at Camp Mary Orton, led by John Furlow of the OSU Herbarium.

April 2002 – Bill Moose Ravine at the Ohio School for the Deaf, led by ODNR botanist Greg Schneider

June 2001 – Overbrook Ravine at N High St. led by Mark Balsom

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