Cedar Bog Educational Facility Open House

Saturday, April 18, from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M. the recently completed educational facility at Cedar Bog will be open to the public. Refreshments will be served and tours and educational material will be available.
There will be a bird walk at 9:00 AM.
The facility was designed to be ecologically friendly, with features that include solar panels, geothermal heating and a Trombe wall to absorb additional heat from the sun.
The facility had been planned for years but state budget cute almost killed it. The Cedar Bog Association came through and got the project done.
The bog ,hich is actually a fen is a weird little patch of natural history that got deposited out of place there about 12,000 years ago (or in the 60s if you're a creationist).
PS Toad Tuning is just around the corner.

Noose Son story here.

Cedar Bog, near Urbana, Ohio, like many other sites maintained by the Ohio Historical Sociesty, has suffered considerable budget cuts in recent years. Threatened with closure, the volunteer group, The Cedar Bog Association, has stepped up to the plate to, not only keep the nature preserve open, but to continue the efforts to move forward with plans to build an education center and pay a person full time to manage the site.
Cedar Bog was "discovered" by Col. Israel Ludlow when he was surveying the Northwest Territory in the late 1700s. In 1942, the Ohio Historical Society designated the area a nature preserve because it was the best example of a boreal and prairie fen complex in Ohio with many rare plants and animals, excellent orchid and prairie wildflower displays. The Bog was threatened, briefly, when the construction of a new Route 68 was planned to go through it in the '70s. The bog prevailed.
Now the Cedar Bog needs YOU !
With your help in time or money we can keep this rare area of Ohio alive for generations to come.
Article from the Springfield News-Sun here.