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After state budget cuts, volunteers with the Ohio Natural Areas & Preserves Association have stepped up to do the boots-on-the-ground work it takes to preserve the state's natural areas.
WYSO A wet sedge meadow in Clark County where the Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid blooms in June Early last month in Clark County, just east of Dayton, volunteers helped state naturalists from the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves (DNAP) protect a federally endangered flower. The flower likes native grassy meadows, but most of those in Ohio were turned into farm fields over a century ago. But here, in a tiny wet sedge meadow surrounded by farm fields in Clark County, the orchid is thriving. Volunteers from around the state took a sunny weekday morning to root out trees like dogwoods and willows that were threatening to shade out the little flower.
Standing water at the wet sedge meadow in Clark County Volunteers from around the state took a sunny weekday morning to root out trees like dogwoods and willows that were threatening to shade out the little flower. “We re going around the state all the time and we feel like every place we go, we re putting this little Band-Aid on a gaping wound. She said, But every little bit that we do, we re making a difference to save natural areas in Ohio.” At the meadow, the volunteers cut the invasive plants back to the roots. Then, professional naturalists carefully painted the roots with an herbicide so the trees wouldn’t come back.