Green Space Conservation
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The Clean Ohio Green Space Conservation Program helps to fund preservation of open spaces, sensitive ecological areas, and stream corridors. Special emphasis was given to projects that:
The Clean Ohio Green Space Conservation Program helps to fund preservation of open spaces, sensitive ecological areas, and stream corridors. Special emphasis was given to projects that:
- Protect habitat for rare, threatened or endangered species;
- Preserve high quality wetlands and other scarce natural resources;
- Preserve streamside forests, natural stream channels, functioning
floodplains, and other natural features of Ohio's waterways; - Support comprehensive open space planning;
- Secure easements to protect stream corridors, which may be planted with trees or vegetation to help reduce erosion and fertilizer/pesticide runoff;
- Enhance eco-tourism and economic development related to outdoor
recreation in economically challenged areas; - Provide pedestrian or bicycle passageways between natural areas
and preserves; - Reduce or eliminate nonnative, invasive plant and animal species;
- Provide safe areas for fishing, hunting and trapping in a manner that
provides a balanced eco-system.
General Information
The Green Space Conservation Program is administered by the Ohio Public Works Commission. For more information about the Green Space Conservation Program, please visit our website.
The State of Ohio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider of ADA Services.