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Early settlers on this continent found the forests and grasslands
interspersed with swamps, ponds, and marshes, and these wetlands were
perhaps the most productive of all wildlife areas. But now 55% of
America's wetlands have been drained and we still lose more than 400,000
acres of wetlands every year.
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Great
Miami River Clean Up
April 26, 2008
Ohio
River Sweep
June
21, 2008
We
need people and trucks!
Contact
Kani Meyer
kaniau@yahoo.com
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The Oxbow is a broad floodplain where the Great Miami River empties
into the Ohio. This area where three states - Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky
- come together, is near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, seventeen miles downstream
from Cincinnati.
Oxbow
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Oxbow
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Click on the Image Below
for a Local Map of the Oxbow
Please
email comments and suggestions to Kani Meyer at kaniau@yahoo.com
Last
updated: 03/30/2008
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In the summer of 1985, political and business leaders announced
plans to create a major new port authority and build a 700-acre commercial
barge shipping center on this floodplain.
Birdathon
2008
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Map of
the
Greater Oxbow Area
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