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The Great Black Swamp (also known simply as the Black Swamp) was a glacially fed wetland in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana, United States, that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation until the late 19th century.
27 maj 2022 · A massive quagmire once seeped across the landscape of northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, where towering oaks and sycamores loomed above murky pools of tannin-stained water—tangled, disorienting, dark.
11 cze 2017 · Extending inland for a hundred miles, the Maumee River, its tributaries and the Swamp supplied the lake with sediments drained from thick—nearly impenetrable—wilderness filled with a rich variety of plants and animals.
28 paź 2019 · Driving around the southwest corner of Lake Erie, through northwestern Ohio, is an easy enough trip currently. But 200 years ago, it was nearly impossible and often deadly for early settlers attempting to make that journey through the Great Black Swamp to get to Michigan.
2-35 Draining the Great Black Swamp. Side A: The landscape of northwest Ohio was formed by melting ice and the glacial lakes left behind in its wake. Because of the low gradient (3 feet fall per mile) to the northeast, the flat lacustrine plain evolved into a large swamp.
Enormous oaks dominated the drier parts of the swamp. Bur oaks were especially adaptable because, unlike many trees, their roots could tolerate water soaking. Thanks to the Goll family, who loved their trees too much to sell them, one nearly virgin stand of swamp forest remains in northwestern Ohio at Goll Woods State Nature Preserve.
3 paź 2018 · In the last five years, the program has enabled the Conservancy and its partners to enhance and restore 3,000 acres of coastal marsh, manage more than 5,000 acres of invasives, and restore more than 3,000 acres of Oak Openings habitat.
