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Cedar Bog

Time stands still at Cedar Bog, with a landscape that looks just as it was thousands of years ago after the last great glacier of the Ice Age disappeared. Cedar Bog is actually not a bog, but a fen – a wetland with ground water that rises to the surface then flushes out of the wetland through several small streams.

Cedar Bog is the only fen in Ohio that is still surrounded with northern white cedar. These trees, plus sedges, shrubs and other wetland plants normally found far to the north, prosper here because of a steady stream of cool water that continues to rise to the surface. This water, sweetened by its flow through hundreds of feet of gravel deposits, is vital to the existence of Cedar Bog an its inhabitants, including uncommon species like the massasauga rattlesnake, spotted turtle, Milbert's tortoise-shell butterfly, and the showy lady's slipper orchids.

A mile-plus long boardwalk guides the visitor through this preserve of Ohio's recent to Ice Age past. Mastodons probably fed here, and all of the Indian cultures of Ohio lived around here.

Cedar Bog is one of more than fifty sites operated by the Ohio Historical Society. The Ohio Historical Society is a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the state's partner in preserving and interpreting Ohio's history, archaeology, and natural history.


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