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Places We Protect

Great Egret Marsh Preserve Looking across the wetlands. © Kent Mason

With your help, The Nature Conservancy has protected nearly 65,000 acres in Ohio.

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Northern Ohio

Places We Protect

Great Egret Marsh

This preserve in Lakeside Marblehead features 150 acres of Lake Erie marshland and is a haven for waterfowl and wading birds.

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Kitty Todd Preserve

Located near Toledo, this 1,400-acre preserve has one of the highest concentrations of rare species of any Ohio nature preserve.

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Morgan Swamp Preserve

At 1,600 acres, this Ashtabula County preserve protects a variety of wetland types and features the Bissell Nature Center.

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Herrick Fen Preserve

One of the last remaining boreal fens in Ohio, the preserve provides habitat for over two dozen state-listed species.

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Lucia S. Nash Preserve

The 650-acre preserve features an ancient kettle lake within the heart of one of Ohio's finest remaining glacial wetlands.

Central and Southern Ohio

Places We Protect

Brown's Lake Bog Preserve

This 99-acre site in Wayne County protects one of Ohio’s oldest kettle hole bogs—a remnant of Ohio’s glacial past.

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Big Darby Headwaters

This 900-acre preserve in Central Ohio’s Logan County protects the headwaters of the biologically rich Big Darby Creek.

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Edge of Appalachia

Located 75 miles southeast of Cincinnati, “the Edge” protects 20,000 acres of Appalachian Mountain foothills in Adams County.

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