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The Slate Run Wetlands
Mitigation bank was completed in partnership with the Columbus and Franklin
County Metro Park District. Construction was completed in the summer
of 1999. The Slate Run Wetlands Preserve was dedicated and opened to
the public by the Metro Parks in October, 2000.
The site is located in northeast Pickaway
County at the Slate Run Metro Park. The Wetland Preserve is a mosaic
of habitat including a diverse mixture wetlands and uplands habitat.
The wetlands habitat consists of sedge meadow, shallow emergent,
deep emergent, scrub shrub and floating aquatic habitat. The
upland areas are dominated by re-established areas of native prairie
grasses, cool season grasses, hardwood forest and remnant wooded
fence rows.
Since construction of Slate Run was completed in the summer of 1999,
it has developed into one of the premier butterfly and birding sites
in central Ohio. The Metro Parks provides numerous wetlands
education opportunities through its interpretive learning program.
For more information please contact the Metro Parks at (614)891-0700
or at www.metroparks.net.
Slate Run is the third bank
completed by the Ohio Wetlands Foundation in Central Ohio and it's
fourth overall.
Wetland credits are available for
compensatory off-site mitigation. |
