We’ve learned since that time what swamps and wetlands are needed for. This should have been made a national reserve and preserved like the Everglades.
There’s some parks that are slowly buying back land and restoring it in Bowling Green (south of Toledo). A few years ago I was apart of a project where we collected grass seeds to plant them in another part of the park. I’m sure there’s others trying to do the same.
Back then there was still malaria in North America all the way up into Canada along with regular outbreaks of yellow fever so swampy places were a lot more of a health hazard.
The Everglades are pretty much toast... How much sea-level rise is it going to take to inundate them. However, we can do something for those areas that can be saved.
I remember my grandparents' telling stories of settling in the area of Fulton County Ohio. They told about the swamps and how they had to lay boards down for the wagons, so they wouldn't sink into the mud. This would have been in the 1800's.
Btw, the active soil layer that was measured to be between 18-27in of active top soil.. we'd get radish's the size of baseballs and turnips the size of basket balls.
I live in central Illinois. After the construction of the Erie Canal these men knew how to dig and they put tiles in. This is some of the richest farmland and it was the last settled because it was too wet to settle. Native American tribes did not stay long in this area due to the malarial conditions. Before settlement our area was tallgrass prairie. Then there came families like the Ingels and Wilders. Changed forever. Taking the long view, this whole area had a shallow sea that covered the midwest. This suits me fine.
People talk about saving the Amazon forest but the forests of the Midwest that are now farmland was once a great forest also.Wish I could have seen seen it.
The primeval forest that stretched from Maine to Florida is a forest of old growth trees that is now almost completely GONE. Only a few stands of limited numbers remain, if any. The tallest White Pine ever cut down in Pennsylvania was 220’ tall from the forest floor to the top of the canopy, that’s nearly the size of a Giant Sequoia. What a great tragedy the loss of that forest is for humanity.
I’m from the 260 in eastern Allen County, Indiana. Thank you NW for teaching me things that my home state hasn’t………??? There’s a small handful of us here in Allen County trying to spread awareness, but information sources are scarce. My French ancestors settled just east of New Haven, IN along the Old Lincoln Hwy route. The farmland is still in our family owned by my 3rd cousins, and I’m sharing this history with them too. Thank you,Ohio!
Todd Crail is awesome. He was my boyfriends Professor at UT. Even as an accounting major, my boyfriend was obsessed with his Bio class that centered around NW Ohio. This area is lucky to have a guy like Professor Crail
I grew up in Wood county. I remember every time we had a wet spring how our yard and all the fields would almost revert back to a swamp with how well and long it retained water.
That was really nicely put together I wish you went a little deeper into why the swamps was important and what is being done to return some of the wetlands to nature
I think there's coming a day when field runoff via drainage tiles are going to have to be treated via a series of retention ponds before they are released in creeks/rivers/ditches/etc. My local lake has a serious alge bloom in July/August, and they tell us to keep our pets away from it.......yet geese swim in it, lol. They did some watershed improvemnets, but there are several hog operations upstream of the creek that feeds into it. Wetlands help prevent these things from happening, and sponge up all the bad stuff.
What people don't know is that the majority of Northern Ohio was really quicksand. In Cleveland, Ohio what's known as Tower City, along with the area of downtown Cleveland was nothing but quicksand. Tower City was once known as Terminal Tower, built and completed in 1926 was a pit of quicksand that had to be filled in in order to start construction. There's a lot more history involved with that building which was the first of its kind in the country. At that time, The Terminal Tower was the tallest building in the world. The Empire State Building followed in 1934. The history of Northern Ohio is strong. By the way the movie King Kong was made just to bring tenets into the new office complex that was empty until the movie came out.
Just going off what I know without doing the internet search first to back it up, but as a farmer who looked for land in the Cleveland area some years ago, the only sandy area in pretty much all of northeast Ohio at least is around Madison, tons of nurseries there, the rest is all clay. The challenge of the construction of the terminal tower wasn't sand, but rock. It would have been easy to sink pilings deep in clay/stone aggregate, but the reason the Cuyahoga never eroded the high ground next to it which became downtown is because it is a spar of solid rock, which was very difficult to drill into at the time. Just curious what you base your knowledge on? I'm currently living in the Toledo area, and it's all clay here, too, by the way. Wetlands/marshes don't exist on sand, the drainage is too good, only on clay.
@@JeffreyGoddin I stand corrected. Where I got my information came from the many construction works in the area from bygone years of the past spinning tall tails. You know something Sir, I really appreciate your feed back on the comment. God bless you Sir, and thanks! Peace!
I heard or read a story about the Black Swamp s it was in the 1800s. A couple of men were canoeing there when one of them saw a hat floating a few feet away. It looked like a good hat, so he paddled closer to retrieve it. As he lifted it, he was astonished to see a man's head jutting up from the water. "Are you all right?' he asked the man. "Well, I could do with a lift for a few miles." The paddler told him to reach up and the pair would help him into the canoe. The swamped fellow said he really appreciated the help, then asked "Do you think there's room for my horse, too?"
Studied my family history in early Ohio and especially Crawford County and read an account of people traveling there to harvest the wild cranberries. I asked my Daddy - he's 90 and still living in Ohio - and he said he remembers the cranberry bogs. What happened? He said they were all drained and filled in.
Cranberries dont grow in water. The bogs are flooded specifically to harvest. They flood the field and the berries float to the surface and then are sucked into a truck. Then the field is drained for growing.
i found it fascinating, and I am also surprised I didn't know, as I live in central Ohio. I have lived out here for 30 years I have seen many woods and fields tiled out and houses built on ground that was once too wet to be passable for me as a hiker. I have often thought how moving an areas water, making it convenient for humans, is usually very bad for the environment.
I live in Paulding County NW Ohio, we have ditches literally everywhere. This place would still be the black swamp had the water not been tamed by this effort, it's kind of incredible. I once read a book about a white man who'd been captured by natives as a boy and described camping where the auglaize river meets the maumee (modern day kingsbury park in Defiance) and he said he didn't sleep for 3 days bc the mosquitoes were so thick. Incredible.
If you drive around Wood County, Ohio in the rural areas, look at the huge drainage ditches along nearly every road. They weren't dug for no reason. They will swallow a vehicle unfortunate enough to leave the road. Even today, much of the timber stands left are trees that like "wet feet".
They drained the wet lands at Wright Paterson Air Force Base, killing all of the Massasauga Rattlesnakes remaining in a known population in S W Ohio. @GOOGLE your spell checkers are just little terrorist bitches / boy or girl... when they want to be
Rodney Caupp if I may ask, when was this drainage? Like what year? I’m a big history goof and just love the past. If I had a time machine I’d go back in time to when Ohio was nothing bud woods and part of the great black swamp. To me, it would be so so peaceful
I live on Rondeau Bay, across the lake in Ontario. We had the same natural infrastructures most of which are gone, for the sane reasons. The International Joint Comission and the Nature Conservancy provide International coordination to restore some of Erie's wetland habitats, but that alone isn't enough. We need to protect what remains by law.
Repair her when we was kids you could still swim up by Volmers in the Maumee, now you wouldn't dare. Now I wouldn't take my grandkids to Maumee Bay even. But it's these factories too glad we've started cleaning Toledo Port up, we need the plants and trees that filter, how about some Cypress and northern coffee trees you removed all them put them back. You can balance it out with the right plants and wild life. Water is Life.
It's not factories, it's the silt and fertilizer runoff from farm fields. Now you even have large commercial farms pouring animal waste onto fields that leaches into the water systems. All this is allowed because they are the political secread cow that can do no wrong.
I boat the Maumee river and live surrounded by the tiffin river the blooms were bad we definitely need to not let people like A. Wheeler ever be in charge of the EPA, deregulation isn't a good thing !
This had no information on the black swamp itself. It mainly talked about how to make the water system better. The US army corps of engineers messed a ton up, by raising lake Erie levels. If you get out of Lucas, and Wood counties. And went to ottawa county. Namely Oak Harbor which is where I am from and still live, we are struggling with the raised water levels to supposedly help the waterways. Our roads on the Portage and little Portage rivers, and crane creek, and muddy creek are almost constantly flooded, that isn't an exaggerated statement either. Their solution, was to mail a letter to people in the flood plains to sell their 200 year old farms to these people in Toledo. So they can make it better for Toledoans. Or to stilt our houses. Literally they threw it in our faces, and said get better flood insurance. They held this meeting for all of us flood plain farmers at a local high school, and told us the best solution was to sell our homes so they could demolish it, and turn it into their habitat for these native plants.
They said the same thing to us on the Tiffin/Bean Creek area of Fulton. Farmers up stream and farmers down stream got protections but any farms between, which was just my parents, couldnt. Why? And I quote them at the meeting, "Well the water has to go somewhere and the hunting grounds are right next to you anyway." We were livid. Still are in fact.
@@christopherrenn8137 Same type of folks promoting the Solar BS, throughout Ohio. Much of the power from such is being pumped out of State, they neglect to tell folks that. Green and Environmental propaganda is being used to push a for profit sociopolitical agenda focused on dismanteling the working class. If it's all sold off, no liniage, everything is for rent via corporate ownership. Going back to the Company Store on Company Land, living in Company Housing.
@@bf6159 I actually agree with Farmers being able to "farm" solar in the area. Jumping from Solar farms to Company Stores and Company Land is a bit much. Kinda like how people would say "they dont want a factory -xyz in the area" or even further back when farmers would say they "didnt want Poles on there land because they didnt need Electricity". We still put poles up because it was for the greater good, or so we thought. We have to confront the C02 issue now or our grandkids will pay. that is not a joke, i have seen with my own eyes and have the photo's. I used to shovel snow in october just to go trick or treating and now we are lucky to see in in december if at all. We need to to fix this and we need to do it yesterday.
Northeast Ohio (Ashtabula and Trumbull counties) are also swampy land.... Thankfully I do not have a basement, so not a big issue unless I have to walk in the backyard during the period between Halloween and June.... or if I have to dig a hole.
I was kinda excited about the black swamp title, til he didn't cover any history on the Black Swamp. It's where I grew-up. The Black Swamp had it's purpose... Too many engineers, too little brains or appreciation of nature without seeking to modify it.
I am from Bedford county Virginia worked in Fremont Ohio as a boilermaker the soil was black as could be made me think very pretty place to live thank you
2:58 I live like 2 minutes from this park. It was once a family farm and now it is a public park. You can see all the old equipment and there is a school house on the back of the property. They turned a field into a wetland.
No till for life. I have a 15 acre farm I purchased this winter. I will be farming using organic, no till, methods. Cover crop, em1, bokashi, organic ammendmends like kelp and bone meal. Fish bones and heads. Etc. Liquid fertilizers need to die.
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods tells how they headed west in a wagon across a frozen lake. The following day they heard a huge crack as the lake began its spring thaw.
Not mentioned was the incredible malaria epidemic that plagued early settlers (yes, malaria in northern Ohio!), killing great numbers and necessitating the import of quinine from South American cinchona bark. Visionaries did the unimaginable, trenching with manpower and mules, to drain a fetid and hostile wasteland and benefit their families and posterity. Beneath the blackwater was some of the most fertile soil made available. Of course, when man changes his environment to his benefit, it is criticized. When beavers reroute the hydrology and topography of entire floodplains, it's seen as wholly natural and celebrated. And, as admitted in the video, there would still be nutrient runoff (and concomitant algal blooms) if farms reverted to swampland, from decaying vegetation. The difference is that what is valuable to our species - an important agricultural resource - would be lost. And, whatever the problem we face, the only sure way to make it worse and permanent is to put government on the job.
I remember going to oak openings as a kid, it reeked of sulfur and forget drinking the water. I remember how nasty the Cuyahoga River was before it caught on fire. Most of the Black swamp was turned into very fertile farmland
I grew up nearby Oak Openings and went there many times in all seasons during the 1960's-70's. I drank the water from those old hand operated well pumps and yes, it was very sulfur smelling. Interestingly, we lived 5 miles away and had the sweetest, cleanest tasting water coming out of our well.
(as to the water crisis) It didn't help the city of Maumee ( next door to Toledo) was dumping raw sewage for many years, illegally way over any acceptable limit into lake Erie..... Cost to fix, on the taxpayer of course. Side note born and raised here and it's amazing how people can't tolerate the humidity which is often swamp like, lol. ❤️NWO
Army core of engineers rerouted the Louisiana waterways to accommodate big shipping business, they called it the Mr Go, that's why KATRINA wiped out many AREAS that once were protected by WETLANDS...GREED AND STUPIDITY CAUSED SUCH DESTRUCTION
My family moved to Ohio from Connecticut after the purchase of the "Western Reserve" I think it was called. I'm not sure if someone bought the land and just wanted to get people to move there or if it was simply taken from the Native Americans. Maybe the Natives didn't even want it. But my dad found a document that shows the area my family relocated to described as "worthless swampland." This was closer to Cleveland than it was to Toledo.
As a native of the area my understanding of the Western Reserve was the promise to people in Connecticut who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. In exchange for their service they were promised lands in Ohio through the Western Reserve. The idea was that at that time, the ability for expansion was greater in Ohio than Connecticut, and the climate was similar meaning that little adaptations for life for those residents would be needed. This is why in parts of Northeast Ohio the houses are very similar to New England/ Connecticut. Chagrin Falls is a specific town that you can view on Google Streetview to see these homes.
Twenty miles west of toledo? Lol not a chance. Lake Erie stops in the the city of Oregon area, several miles before the boarder of toledo. The Maumee River is the only part of the lake that flows southwest along Toledo. The river is few hundred miles long. Not to correct you but you can find shells along the shores of almost every single natural water source.
@@mysticmuppet research? LOL. I live in toledo dum-dum. And toledo does not extend that far north. Regardless what it may look like on your little Google maps. Lake Erie turns into Maumee Bay before it reaches toledo. Learn some geography.
@@fivepoint5sicks it does now sure but your missing the point that at one point in time all the great lakes were bigger, and yes you can find shells from the lake west of Toledo. Just because it's smaller now does not mean that was always the case.
Im putting in an H2Ohio wetland on my property outside of Bowling Green and would like some ideas on what native plants to use as well as native woody plants.
Sweetshrub or carolina allspice was my favorite new shrub this year. Asclepias incarnata as well as lobelia Cardinalis, and so many grasses have been incredibly helpful natives. Salvia coccinea (not hybrids only cultivars) and cosmos sulphurous are annuals that self seed and encourage the summer swells of biodiversity.
There are so many wonderful native plants here in our region! If you come to the 577 foundation in perrysburg there are some horticultural and botany experts who can guide you to find a nice set of plants to add to your property. I’ve found a lot of park rangers out at Magee, Metzger and Howard’s marsh willing to have informative conversations about the plants they allow to thrive vs ones they remove. I ask a LOT of questions and am always amazed by how many folks have a wealth of information they’re happy to share. Good luck on your wetland journey!
How about harvesting the runoff nutrients into a very eco-friendly compost/fertilizer because there’s a fertilizer shortage. The lake doesn’t need that material. The fields need that material, and we need the fields. If you reclaim land for swamp, you will reduce food supplies.
I’m born and raised in what’s left of the remnants of the black swamp. I love this land and it hurts my heart how much of the natural habitat hasn’t been protected. Industry along the Maumee river still has permission to dump their waste and poison the water. Yes it’s less poisonous waste than it was decades ago but it’s still a huge part of the problem . The warnings not to eat more than a few fish from the Maumee river still apply to this day. I’m not anti-industry, anti-ag or anti-capitalism but big money has kept the industries from really cleaning up their act. They would rather push the envelope and then after the damage has been done, pay a fine and ask the tax payer to help clean up the mess.... and if it’s too massive a task than it becomes a superfund site and in the end the people pay the cost in their health and wealth. Love and respect our awesome Marcy Kaptur whose always been an amazing advocate for Ohioans , our resources and our lands. Be well ✌️✊😇
Yeah, Ohio River is so polluted that you can't even eat fish out of it, especially not catfish, due to the massive amounts of led that's on the riverbed that gets eaten by bottom feeders, and those bottom feeders get eaten by other fish so almost all the fish in there are filled with toxic levels of lead.
@@inharmonywithearth9982 truer words, Harmony, truer words... It makes me sick to my stomach to thing about all the evil deeds that are continuing to happen. Good point about the word invasive. It's so obvious , but I never looked at it that way before. Stay Savvy.
The lack of common sense in Agricultural is staggering... I AM AN AGRONOMIST... I was introduced to Organic Agricultural in 1985... My OSU profs were totally against it.. Why... Big Ag funding... This is not hard... A majority of the people on this report are clueless... M Kaptur God help us...
Ohio has an important role to play in the landscape of many things on this Earth, as it has been stated in this video. Thank you to everyone who has acknowledge this blessing, because we cannot survive without a water source!💦💞👣💥
Johny Appleseed got his start here in Ohio. Now the New World Order forbids agriculture outside of their control. Ohio Strawberries .........gone with the wind. Frogs in farm ponds... no no no. Shallow Skeeter breeder pits next to the mall growing algae's from hell. Y E S ...!
She says we gone to the Moon Shia gullible one 😂😂😂😂😂😂that little venture was filmed at Gatti's Warehouse Studio in the Hollywood Foothills beside of a few clips in the Arizona desert LOL
Talk to a scientist from University of Toledo recently I know they’re still having the same problem. Why not put the swamp back at this point I drive Ohio 2 every day I ran into them at the friendship right before you get to Toledo
Lake eerie has been the most polluted of the Great Lakes for my entire life. I hope you’re all enjoying “the pleasure” of continuing that rich history. Ps. I’m getting old now.
If you take a bowl fill it with ice and pour water in it and let it melt the bowl does not overflow just like earth you can look at land marks from around the world from thousands of years ago ago and the water level is still the same
Most those areas are very flat and low I've seen more track equipment farming the ground cause it's so wet!. A lot of the ground up there is sitting on solid limestone.
This ^^^^^^, along with all the city wastewater and treatment plants that expel into the Maumee. I farm, and many of my friends farm, we are taking a large hit for being blamed on the algae, but in reality, with the H2Ohio programs and other conservation practices like cover cropping and no till, the water being expelled from our fields are less of fertilizers now than they ever been. I would or am not afraid to drink the water that comes out of one of my field tile or outlet, its that CLEAN ! Commercial Fertilizer costs are huge, most well managed farms will not over fertilize because of the COSTS to be profitable, in fact with GPS and variable rate application, I have spots in certain fields that require NO fertilizers. The same can be said of pesticides, we all have to have a license to apply fertilizers and agricultural pesticides per State of Ohio and we go thru constant training and meetings. There is also research ongoing about sulphur ( acid rain ) from the power plants, ever since the scrubbers have been installed per EPA, there is so much less acid rain ( sulphur ) in the black swamp area which resisted algae, now.... that sulphur is gone, and we are seeing more algae in our woods. People need to realize, that this while thing is one large puzzle and there are many -many pieces to the puzzle....not just the farmers. Another thing the video does not mention...clearing of the swamp is how we got our roads and infrastructure built. The wood was made into lumber, dynamite and horses removed the stumps of HUGE trees, oaks, walnuts and elm. Then from digging of ditches, the spoil of the ditch digging piled on one side of the ditch, and made for high ridges that roads could be made on top of. The draining of the swamp allowed production of some of the best soils in the world for crop production, depending on subsoil .
@@hf-lz2qw VERY well said! To your point of city waste water contributing to algae blooms, ag is being 'blamed' because fed dept of ag has funds. Farmers have to have manure management plans, fert plans etc, small cities can apply for dept of ag grant or loans to update older waste water treatment plants. Farmers take the Heat, municipalities get funds. As explained to me by a county commisioner in the watershed of Lake St Mary's.
All cities and communities need areas where water runoff can occur and congregate before making way to greater bodies of water. Generally, mother nature knows best and has already created the needed streams, gully's and swamps serving this purpose. It is important to build around these drainage systems in a way not to impede their ability to do their job in the name of "progress"'; progress without respect to the natural world.
Everything is mismanaged . The average human does not care. They want to get McDonald's and then throw out the packaging a half mile away! It's sickening!
I agree. So many don't seem to care about where they throw their trash. I'm old enough to remember when there were signs saying Keep America clean, don't litter.
The soil is likely glacial till with a l lot of clay deposits that inhibit water flow. Disabling the drainage tile means the only plants that can survive long term in water around their roots can grow. There maybe oxygen hypoxia which surprisingly aids certain plants. Most likely it is not the drainage tile that is causing algae blooms in the great lakes, but run off from fertilized lawns and farmer's fields. Before water can enter drainage tile at a mimmim it is typically several feet from the surface and possibly 50-feet between other drainage tile. By that point plant fertilizer elements should have clung to the soil. Run-off storm water is a serous problem. Having storm water lay on fields with ground that is kept out of saturation by drainage tile allows it to pass into the soil instead of being run-off that carries nutrients away along with the soil as well. Once water has combined with clay it is strongly bound and takes weeks to dry out. It's strange stuff. It's like liquid water with extreme heavy viscosity. It has no stability to it. Even though drainage tile may just have a light trickle coming out of it, over weeks or months the clay holding soil goes through various levels of drying out. This process is not well described. The clay appears to not want to absorb water, but will after continues exposure for several days then it will not easily give up holding on to the water unless exposed to air. For unimproved surface trails on such soil the situation can easily exist where the surface appears solid for the first 50 or so hikers. Then becomes softer and then turns to mush by hiker +100. That means 10 people per day for just 10 days with soil that takes 6 weeks to dry out after becoming water saturated. I cut a drainage collecting ditch across the Paul Ruster Park (Indianapolis Indiana) parking lot trail to catch and divert stormwater rutting the path. Further down the path there was a thick viscous mud that would form causing people to avoid using the trail. There were many aspects of this trail the caused people to avoid using it. Diverting the trail onto apparently better ground had the situation described above take place with there being no other better ground near by to put the trail on. It appeared this was from ground water coming to the surface. I deepened the storm water diversion trench a good foot deep where people would have to step over it. It then began having water seep into the base of the trench draining the up slope soil of ground water. This drainage continued for a couple months. Before my improvements to the parking lot trail it had become seldom used. With all the improvements and COVID traffic on it, traffic increased a lot. I thought the drainage trench might dewater the ground further down if made considerably deeper and for bicycle traffic there really should not be a trench. I'd also discovered the steep trench was prone to people throwing debris into it along with natural debris from tree branches, leafs and such flowing into it. I decided to put in a 4" drainage tile pipe with a rock base taken from Buck Creek a few hundred feet away. In all 100-feet of drainage tile pipe was implemented across the slope of the area the trail was going down at a slightly skew angle. The drainage pipe also had gravel above it were it crossed the trail to allow inflow from stormwater on the trail that might be blocked by debris into the diversion channel that was directly on top of the drainage tile pipe. For the next few months the area down slope from the drainage tile continued have saturated mud, but after about 3-months it became stable. This was in summer when rain was not frequent, but other soil outside the area was still mushy. The next spring the area didn't return to the saturated mud condition of previous years. This would indicate a time period of about 3-months from when the drainage tile severed ground water flow to where the soil 70-ft - 100-ft down grade of it became non saturated. Such long time periods indicates a long process taking place. The way to build hiking trails is to route the trail around saturated soil such as this even if a fairly long way around. I was doing this during COVID and somewhat as an experiment and there really wasn't away around that most people would excepted. There is also the need to put down gravel on a diverted trail section to make it appear the same as the main trail. Deciding to try to improve the soil condition is a big change in thought from normal trail maintenance, but it this case it appears to have worked very well with no other trail remedies at hand. The quick method might have been for the park's department to put down lots of truck dropped gravel where the saturated mud was. The whole area was under layers of dead blocking ash trees with vines and after growth further chocking off travel through it. Clearing all that debris took months of every other day 2-3 hour work. Cutting drainage ditches and mining gravel from the creek by hand to fix the tricky situation was an extreme trail build, but it will probably work for a very very long time. Farm field drainage tile piping is place much deeper than the 2-feet I hand dug though large stone soil at 4 to 5 feet. In Indiana most of the large streams were steam dredged in the late 1800s to place them at a level to allow gravity flow from field drainage tile. They are called legal drains. Now of days if having a similar situation with glacial till without a State implanted legal drain system of lower creaks the straight forward method is to have field drainage tile drain into a common under ground sump. It can then be pumped out to a higher level stream or pond. Some farmers have the sump built large to allow stocking water for later use such as irrigation. No need to start deepening a creek and having to continue it for the next thirty miles. Although that has made for some well level ground embankments along many Indiana streams.at
How you know there in Ohio… the sky’s gray. Little fact ohio during October to about march every day the sky is gray, we got a hand full of days where it clears but 95 percent the winter it’s gray.
This problem was man made from what I hear. Farmers over fertilizing on the fields surface knowing that a lot of it would end up in our great beautiful Great Lake as run off.
Lived in findlay, fostoria, tiffin, arcadia, value, vanburen, worked at hoyt ville, as a combat engneer. Stationed out of LIma ohio. Know of the land well. Sgt williams cod 983 rd LIma. Ohio
the major threat these days is overdevelopment and urban sprawl....the urban sprawl in Florida is horrific more and more wetlands and forests destroyed every day!
This wasn't a problem in the 80s when there was much more undeveloped farmland. Now subdivisions pipe lawn fertilizer into the lake as well. The lake also doesn't freeze over anymore and Toledo has outdated water systems that draw water from the most stagnet part of the lake. Oregon has tons of farm land and still gets good water. No other cities in US or Canada is having trouble getting clean water. Toledo needs to upgrade its water system and doesn't have a tax base to do it.
Yikes have you been to Oregon? They literally catch on fire every summer because they’ve been in a drought for over 20 years. The water is clean but they don’t have nearly enough of it
