An Ecological Study of Buckeye Lake. 9 



are included in the description of that region in which they 

 were charted. 



Before proceeding with the paper I wish to make acknowl- 

 edgment to the following persons for the courtesies and as- 

 sistance I have received. To Dr. Alfred Dachnowski under 

 whose supervision the work was done ; Dr. C. A. Davis of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Mines, and Professor J. A. Schaffner for as- 

 sistance in the identification of plants; IVIr. H. H. Bartlett for the 

 identification of the Alusci and Hepaticeae, Mr. Wilmer Stover 

 for the identification of fungi ; Professor C. E. Sherman and 

 J. R. Chamberlain of the Ohio State University; Messrs. Bootin 

 and Sawyer of the Canal Commission, and to Captain Chittenden 

 for charts, maps and information concerning the reservoir and 

 lake ; Miss Clara Mark and Mr. Lionel King for photographs 

 of local features. 



LOCATION OF LAKE. 



Buckeye Lake, (Fig. i) is situated in Licking, ^''airfield and 

 Perry counties in Ranges 17 and 18, Townships 17, 18 and 19. 

 It is a long irregular body of water with its longest diameter 

 from east to west extending from 82*^ 25' 27" to 82° 31' 12" 

 west longitude, approximately 7^ miles long from east to west, 

 and varying in width from one- fourth mile in the eastern portion 

 to a mile and one-half at the extreme western end, and covering 

 an original estimated area of 4,200 acres. Originally used as a 

 reservoir for the Ohio canal, ■''^ on May 21st, 1894. the General 

 Assembly of Ohio passed an act reserving this reservoir for a 

 public park and summer resort to be known as Buckeye Lake. 



The site of the lake was a more or less completely tree- 

 covered impassable swamp known to the Indians and early set- 

 tlers as the "Big Swam])," "Two Lakes" or "Big and Little 

 Lake."''- It lay diagonally across the southeast corner of Twp. 

 17 ,and almost half across the southern border of Twp. 19. In 

 the center of this area was a long narrow lake (Fig. 2) fed by 

 several small streams, of which the largest were Buckeye and 

 Honey creeks. The lake drained into the South Fork of the 

 Lickine River. 



