See how a premier natural area like The Rookery hides a history of changes wrought by farming, railway and beavers during Ghost Farm in the Forest on Sunday, November 5th, 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
With Senior Naturalist Dan Best as their guide, participants will “read the landscape” for evidence of former land use within this 562-acre park located at 10110 Cedar Road in Munson Township. “Find” a glacial lake-bed that became pasture, a farm that became a forest, and a stream altered for a golf course, only to have the drainage “re-engineered” by beavers.
Where this park is now a quiet preserve, a century ago the spark and clang of trolley cars could be heard along the path of the old Interurban Railroad, whose raised rail bed leads to the site of the junction that connected Cleveland to Middlefield and Chardon. The Rookery is a favorite park to take a walk year-round, for the dynamics of this unique trail in particular.
Registration is not required to attend this partially wheelchair-accessible program geared toward those 12 and older. Please call 440-286-9516 with questions.
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