Oxbow, Inc.

 

Protecting and Preserving Wetlands

P.O. Box 4172, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

Vanishing Wetlands

A Special Place for Wildlife
Birth of an Organization
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.
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.

Early settlers on this continent found the forests and grasslands interspersed with swamps, ponds, and marshes. But now 55% of America's wetlands have been drained and we still lose more than 400,000 acres of wetlands every year.

Learn More

Click on the Image Below for a Local Map of the Oxbow

Please email comments and suggestions to Kani Meyer at kaniau@yahoo.com

 Programs

 Field Trips

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 7:30pm

301 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg

The Oxbow, Inc. Office

 

Dr. Dennis Conover, Field Service Associate Professor at UC, will present some of his observations on a variety of things in the Great Outdoors, ranging from turtles trapped in duck nest boxes to earlier flowering of plants linked with warmer average annual temperatures to the advantages of culling deer to help plants to the role of beavers in certain wetlands.

Early Spring Waterfowl Migration

Sat., February 25, 2012, 8:00 am.

Meet: In the upper Oxbow parking lot at the main entrance to the Oxbow

Leader: Paul Wharton, (513) 353-3403, pwharton@fuse.net

 

     Spring waterfowl migration should be in full swing by this date and those species will be the primary focus of this trip. Bald Eagle numbers are increasing as well and this is also a great time of year to find multiple Bald Eagles in the Oxbow. A diverse number of other seasonal and migrant birds and wildlife will also be seen.

     Paul is an expert birder with great bird finding abilities so expectations are high. Paul will move around to several spots in the Oxbow area depending on accessibility and water conditions. Aside from seeing waterfowl and other birds, mud is also guaranteed, so dress appropriately. This morning trip should end before noon. Contact Paul with any questions about the trip.