Our crews are taking advantage of the recent mild weather to get some badly needed repairs done to our park facilities. This restroom at Blue Spruce is receiving a new roof and new skylights.
The date was December 4th but already Skunk Cabbage it beginning to send up its shoots. It will be a few more months before the flower and leaves emerge but the process of renewal has already begun.
Vernal pools at the Blacklick Valley Natural Area are beginning to fill up in anticipation of the spring amphibian migrations. Frogs and salamanders will arrive here on the first warm rainy night of Spring.