June 14, 2008 by admin.

NEWS
Explore The Outdoors with your kids this summer at Ohio State Parks! Check out the website www.exploretheoutdoorsohio.com

We want to see your kids connecting with nature at Ohio State Parks! “Kids Exploring the Outdoors” photo contest deadline is November 5, 2008

Wi-Fi Service is coming this summer to the campgrounds at Dillon • Jackson Lake • Mosquito Lake • Pymatuning
Wi-Fi service is already available at no charge to registered campers at Alum Creek • East Harbor • Grand Lake St Marys • Hueston Woods • Rocky Fork
Wi-Fi is available for a fee at the nine state park resort lodges

“Dog Friendly” cottages are available at Burr Oak • Dillon • Hueston Woods • Lake Hope • Maumee Bay • Mohican • Pike Lake • Pymatuning • Salt Fork • Shawnee

Disc Golf Courses are available at Buck Creek • Delaware • East Harbor • Findley • Forked Run • Great Seal • Hueston Woods • Independence Dam • Pike Lake • Rocky Fork

Archery Ranges are offered at Barkcamp • Beaver Creek • Hocking Hills • Hueston Woods • Punderson • Salt Fork • Shawnee

Swim Safe! beach safety program, begun in 2000, remains focused on its slogan “Keep an eye on the kids!”

Ohio State Park Lodges are “Going Green”

Check out the improvements planned for Middle Bass Island State Park

See what else is going on at ODNR

NATURE CORNER

Check out this month’s Nature Thing for Kids

Stuff for Kids

Other educational resources

EVENTS

Check out the series of Gander Mountain Paddle Quest events at Ohio State Parks

See what’s happening in the state parks during June and July

FYI
Check out Campground Availability to see which parks still have campsites available for the upcoming weekend and summer holidays.

Download the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of the Ohio State Parks magazine.

Support Ohio’s state parks when you renew your vehicle registration with our special license plate

Want to make a difference to your favorite Ohio State Park? Become an Ohio State Park Volunteer

Ohio State Parks Gift Card or merchandise make terrific holiday gifts!

DEALS

Take your next vacation at one of our beautiful resorts. See what specials are available at:

Burr Oak Mohican
Deer Creek Punderson
Geneva Salt Fork
Hueston Woods Shawnee
Maumee Bay
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March 18, 2008 by admin.

“Attached is the Grand Lake/Wabash Watershed Alliance’s latest press release. We will be co-sponsoring a stream monitoring training. This training is for anyone interested in learning more about water quality. It is hands on and a lot of fun! If you have any questions, please call or email.I also attached the GLWWA Advisory Board meeting agenda, you have received this before. AN ADDITION TO THE AGENDA is included on this document. The GLWWA Joint Board will meet briefly before this Advisory Board. This meeting will be to review Water Pollution Control Loan Fund certification letters. These letters require a motion with the board before being passed to OEPA.

Thank you,

Laura Walker
Grand Lake/Wabash Watershed Coordinator
Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District
220 W. Livingston St. Suite 1
Celina, OH 45822
419-586-3289
fax: 419-586-9599
laura.walker(at)mercercountyohio.org”

3-12-08-monitoring-release.doc

glwwa-advisory-board-meeting-3-08.doc

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March 11, 2008 by admin.

Ag Day is approaching, and the Grand Lake/Wabash Watershed Alliance is extending our thanks to producers in the watershed.

Press Release
GLWWA Thanks Producers
In honor of National Agriculture Day, March 21, 2008, the Grand Lake/Wabash Watershed Alliance
(GLWWA) would like to extend gratitude to all landowners and operators who use best management
practices (BMPs).  Utilization of BMPs is important for many reasons.

Planting strips of grassland around a field will slow surface water runoff and filter water, keeping sediment
and nutrients from entering the water.  Thank you to the producers in the Grand Lake St. Marys watershed
who are participating in the 2007 Agriculture Incentive Program or have signed up for the EQIP
Demonstration Project.  Both of these programs offered an incentive to plant filter strips that can be cut for
hay.  A special thank you goes out to producers who install filter strips on their own.

As winter continues, we want to thank producers who followed winter manure application guidelines.  By
following setbacks and application rates, nutrients are kept on your fields and out of the water.  These
practices take time and the extra effort is noticed.

As spring arrives, the GLWWA wants to send an early thank you to producers and landowners who test
their soil and follow the analysis recommendations.  As we have seen, many lawns and some fields do not
need phosphorous on a regular basis.  Keeping the phosphorous to only the level needed for healthy plants
will reduce the phosphorous carried away by runoff.

A big thank you goes to the producers who tried a cover crop this winter.  Cover crops are planted during
the fall, capturing nitrogen and other nutrients.  These nutrients are held on the field, instead of running off
during winter freeze and thaw.  In the spring, these plants will decompose releasing the nutrients for the
summer crop.

The last big thank you is extended to agriculture landowners and operators who have considered bettering
water quality with their practices.  Only a few are specifically mentioned above, so many of the very
important practices are not mentioned.  Wetlands, riparian buffers, Conservation Reserve Programs and
many more BMPs are vital for improving water quality.  The GLWWA will continue to search for
incentives and cost share programs to make BMPs more cost effective.  There are many facets to our
watershed action plan and it will not be a success without action from the agriculture stakeholders.

If you are a stakeholder in the Wabash River Watershed, please consider attending the Public Advisory
Board meeting on March 25, 2008.  This meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the Fort Recovery Village Hall.
The topic of discussion will be a grant application for agriculture practices that will improve water quality
in the Wabash River Watershed.  These practices must be in one subwatershed, as seen in the attached
map.  If you have questions about this meeting or the above information, please call Mercer County Soil
and Water Conservation District at 419-586-3289.
 Ag Day 2008

In 2008 the GLWWA is planning to submit a 319 grant application for agriculture practices in one of these hydrologic codes:
1.Wabash Headwaters to below Bear Creek
2.Wabash River above Bear Creek below Stony Creek
3.Wabash River below Stony Creek above Beaver Creek
4.Beaver Creek from Grand Lake to above Little Beaver Creek
5.Little Beaver Creek
6.Beaver Creek below Little Beaver Creek to Wabash River
7.Wabash River below Beaver Creek to New Corydon
8.Limberlost Creek Headwaters to below Bull Creek

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