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Cedar Bog
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Time stands still at Cedar Bog. Ohio's only fen - a wetland with water that rises to
the surface - that
is still surrounded with white cedar, just as it was thousands of years ago after the last great
glacier disappeared.
Cedar Bog sits atop an ancient river valley carved by the glacier melt water. Sedges, shrubs, trees,
and other marsh plants normally found in 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.
An almost mile 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 sixty 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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