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Mesophytic Forest, Breeding Place for 

 Great Blue Herons. About 30 acres; 

 deciduous forest; used as nesting place 

 bjf several hundred great blue herons; 

 about 600 nests, some of the largest trees 

 containing about 25 nests. 



Fremont t, 8 mi. west-northwest. 



ToledoJ, 25 mi. east-southeast; Lake 

 Shore Electric, to Hessville. Heronry 

 about one mi. north from Electric line, 

 and one mi. west of Hessville (a). 

 Sandusky County, Ohio. — E. L. Moseley. 



Maps: Elmore and Fremont quad- 

 rangles. 



IV. The Till Plains of the Central 

 Lowland Province 



* Buckeye Lake and Bog t (B4.) This 

 lake is state-owned in its entirety and 

 one of the state parks. It was orig- 

 inally a small lake lying in a swampy 

 swale of land, and artificially increased 

 to its present dimensions in order to 

 furnish water for feeding the Ohio and 

 Erie canal. Reservoir commenced in 

 1828; completed in 1832 ; enlarged in 1836. 

 State-owned property — 4000 acres of 

 water and 100 acres of abutting land 

 and islands. Forty species of fish re- 

 corded, all but two native. 



The part of greatest ecological interest 

 is Cranberry Marsh, a floating island 

 cranberry-sphagnum bog in Buckeye 

 Lake. Topography surrounding the lake 

 is low hills (morainal) and wide shallow 

 valleys. The original lake was a glacial 

 finger lake, a part of Jonathan Creek; 

 waters sluggish, basin 7 mi. long, average 

 width § mi.; average depth 6-8 ft.; lake 

 is post-glacial and quite young. Border- 

 ing the lake to the north is a hardwood 

 grove of about 10 acres. In the lake are 

 numerous islands of which Cranberry 

 Marsh is the largest and ecologically 

 the most interesting. It is a cranberry- 

 sphagnum meadow surrounded and 

 invaded by a hardwood tree zone, com- 

 prising in its entirety approximately 45 

 acres. 900 ft. 



Columbust, 30 mi. east, Ohio Electric, 

 Hebron, Licking County; two mi. south. 

 Buckeye Lake spur of Ohio Electric, 

 Buckeye LakeJ. — Freda Detmers, E. N. 

 Transeau, Division of Fish and Game, 

 Dept. Agr. 



Reference: 



Detmers, Frederica. 1912. An Eco- 

 logical Study of Buckeye Lake. 

 Proc. Ohio State Acad. Sci., Sp. 

 Paper no. 19. 

 Maps: 



Thurston and Thornville quadrangles. 



Map "made under the direction of the 

 Ohio Canal Commission", Dept. 

 Public Works. 



* Radnor Heronry. (C3.) A small 

 area of wooded swamp (the best part of 

 it probably less than 10 acres) in which 

 thirty or more pairs of the Great Blue 

 Heron are nesting. A mixed growth of 

 large oaks, maples, and poplars, to- 

 gether with smaller trees. Flora very 

 rich and varied. Miscellaneous bird 

 fauna very rich. Swamp very promising 

 for microscopic fauna and flora, but has 

 not been examined. Amount of water 

 and number of mosquitoes make area 

 undesirable for general park purposes; 

 interest essentially scientific. 960 ft.; 

 level. 



MarionJ, 17 mi. south, or Delaware^, 

 8 mi. north, Hocking Valley R. R. or 

 C. D. & M. Electric; 2^ mi. N.E. (w or a) 

 Radnor (Meredith) Station, Delaware 

 County. —Edward L. Rice. 



Map: Delaware quadrangle. 



*Indian Lake. (B2.) A state park, 

 formerly known as Lewiston Reservoir. 

 The larger islands were sold under act 

 of the Ohio Legislature. Water acreage 

 6134, and 200 acres of bulk-heads, 

 islands, and margin ; average depth, 8 ft. ; 

 not polluted. Thirty-seven species of 

 fish recorded, all but two native. 1000 

 ft.; level. 



Bellefontainel, 12 mi. N.W. Russels 

 Point or 14 mi. N.W. to Lakeview, Ohio 

 Electric or Toledo and Ohio Central 

 R. R. — Division of Fish and Game, Ohio 

 Dept. Agr. 



Maps: 



Alger, Bellefontaine quadrangles. 

 Map "made under the direction of the 

 Supt. of Public Works." 



