Join Us For a Tree Planting Event at Poston Preserve! Join us in planting 1,300 trees supplied by First Energy at AOA's Poston Preserve.  This event is being jointly organized by First Energy Green Team, Izaak Walton League (Central Ohio Chapter) DNO Inc., and the Appalachia Ohio Alliance.  Everyone is welcome!  No prior experience is […]

Springtime is upon us again after a cold winter.  Join us for an early spring hike on AOA’s beautiful Lamb Preserve. The last few years we have celebrated the arrival of spring with the massive bloom of White Trout Lilies at AOA's Lamb Preserve. We will wander along the stream tributary and riparian corridor bottomlands […]

Enjoy short hikes on two of AOA’s Scioto River Preserves.  We will start out at AOA’s Scioto Bend Preserve where we will tour the recently completed phase 1 site restoration enhancements.  Recently flooded for only the second time in over 100 years we will view the western levee breach, beaver dam analogs and other wetland […]

Explore AOA’s relatively new 70-acre Wylie Ridge Preserve along Dunlap Road in Gibisonville.  Wylie Ridge is part of our Laurel Run Preserve Initiative that protects water quality in the upper Laurel Run watershed.  This area has been a long-term priority for AOA and includes AOA’s first conservation easement.  To date, AOA has preserved 13 properties […]

Spring is in the air and the wildflowers are busting out at AOA’s Bison Hollow State Nature Preserve.  Enjoy a springtime ramble through the gorge and admire the many native wildflowers that carpet the floor of the mature hardwood forests.  Wildflowers we will see are typical of the Hocking Hills region and should include a […]