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OH 1 . Brown's Lake Bog. Acreage: 80. 



Location: Wayne County; Shreve 7.5' Quadrangle; about 11 miles SW of 

 Wooster. 



Description: A Registered Natural Landmark. One of the few well-preserved, 

 boreal acid bogs remaining in a region where wetland has been drained for 

 agricultural use, filled by siltation, polluted by industrial or other uses, or other- 

 wise changed in character. It contains a splendid example of undisturbed boreal 

 acid bog vegetation and a rich variety of wetland vegetation and swamp forest. 

 Persistence of this bog has been possible because low divides in the welter of 

 eskers, kames, drumlins, moraines, and till plains isolate it from nearby wet areas 

 which have been drained, filled, or otherwise altered. The bog possesses an 

 unusually high degree of integrity as a typical example of a glacial depression in 

 which the stages of ecological succession from open water to swamp woodland 

 may be observed. Its potential for education and research in paleobotany and 

 ecology makes it nationally significant. 



Ownership: TNC. 



Data source: NPS. 



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