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NATURALIST'S GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS 



of Fish and Game, Ohio Dept. Agr., 



Sportsmen's Bull., no. 1. 

 Maps: 



Akron, Massillion quadrangles. 

 Map "made under the direction of the 



Ohio Canal Commission." Dept. 



of Public Works. 



Brown's Lake Bog. (B4.) 75 acres of 

 deciduous forest, excellent bog, glacial 

 topography, swamp, marsh, lake. In 

 danger of drainage and grazing. 990 ft. 



WoosterJ, 8 mi. S. W., Pa. R. R., 2 mi. 

 west, Shreve; Wayne County. P. D. 

 Strausbaugh. 



Map: Loudonville quadrangle. 



Spellacy Valley Forest}. (A4.) 

 About 30-40 acres along the narrow valley 

 of Mohican River in Holmes, Know, and 

 Ashland counties. Forest principally of 

 oak, maple, chestnut, and hemlock. 

 Fauna includes foxes; raccoons; gray 

 fox, and red squirrels; ruffed grouse; 

 several otter reported within last 10 

 years. Stream 50-100 ft. wide, pools 

 5-8 ft. in depth. 900-1300 ft.; sharp. 



LoudonvilleJ, 5.2 mi. south, Mans- 

 field and Dennison branch, Pa. R. R.; 

 Spellacy**, Holmes County. L. B. 

 Walton. 



Map: Loudonville quadrangle. 



Brink Haven State Preserve. (C3.) 

 1140 acres on west bank of Mohican 

 River one to two mi. north of Brink 

 Haven; leased by state as a game pre- 

 serve. Forest of oak, maple, chestnut, 

 and other species, with fauna of fox, rac- 

 coon, gray fox, and red squirrel, ruffed 

 grouse ; introduced Mongolian pheasants ; 

 turkey probably in 1922. 



Brink HavenJ, C. A. & C. R. R. (Pa. 

 R. R.); one to two mi. north; Knox 

 County. L. B. Walton. 



Map: Brink Haven quadrangle. 



*Keny on College Forest. (C4.) About 

 100 acres of woodland in several tracts, 

 on the lands belonging to Kenyon 

 College. Portions of mixed oak forest, 

 containing original forest trees. Peri- 

 odically burned over up to 1908; repro- 

 duction since 1908. Second growth from 

 60 to 75 years old in north section. All 

 forest is mixed oak with associates of 

 chestnut, black gum, and several species 

 of hickory. Flat Iron tract of 10 acres 

 clear cut in 1912. Second growth 



succession of interest. 940-1080 ft.; 

 rolling. 



GambierJ, C. A. & C. railroad. Knox 

 County. Edmund Secrest. 



Map: Gambier quadrangle. 



Black Hand Gorge}. (D5.) Isolated 

 area of scrub and pitch pines ; yellow and 

 cherry birches; hemlock on northerly 

 exposures of gorge. Succession of mixed 

 oak-pine forest. Licking River flows 

 through gorge, swift; precipitous slopes 

 of sandstone formation. 780-1100 ft. 



Newark^, 6 mi. east Pennsylvania or 

 B. & O. railroads, and Ohio Electric 

 Line. B. & O. R. R. and Electric Line 

 pass through the gorge and stop at local 

 points within one mi. of gorge. Licking 

 County, Ohio. F. W. Dean. 



Maps: Newark and Frazeysburg quad- 

 rangles. 



*Mt. Pleasant Park, now known as 

 Rising Park. (C4.) 73 acres; a western 

 outlier of the Allegheny Plateau. A 

 pyramidal hill, 200 ft. in height, 1.5 mi. 

 in circumference, apex 30 by 100 yds. 

 Partly forested; deciduous forest on 

 slopes; pine barren summit. City park 

 of Lancaster; it is the intention of the 

 city to keep this as a natural park. 

 900-1090 ft. 



Lancaster!, Fairfield County. 



Reference: 



Howe. 1896. Historical Collections 

 of Ohio, I: 590-591. 



Map: Lancaster quadrangle. 



The Sugar Grove Region (7 areas). 

 "The Sugar Grove region is a narrow 

 strip of country extending from a few 

 miles north of the town of Sugar Grove in 

 Fairfield County, Ohio, in a southerly 

 direction about twenty miles to the val- 

 ley of Queer Creek near the southern 

 boundary of Hocking County, . . ." 

 The flora of the region is fairly represen- 

 tative of all of the "hill country" (Alle- 

 gheny Plateau) of eastern and south- 

 eastern Ohio. In this region, many of 

 the plant communities are exceptionally 

 well developed, for its topography is 

 more bold and rugged than that of many 

 other parts of the plateau region. It is 

 particularly interesting because of the 

 mingling, in it, of northern and southern 

 species. It has been a favorite collect- 



