Oxbow, Inc.

 

Protecting and Preserving Wetlands

P.O. Box 4172, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

Vanishing Wetlands

A Special Place for Wildlife
Birth of an Organization
In the summer of 1985, political and business leaders announced plans to create a major new port authority and build a 700-acre commercial barge shipping center on this floodplain.
The Oxbow is a broad floodplain where the Great Miami River empties into the Ohio. This area where three states - Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky - come together, is near Lawrenceburg, Indiana, seventeen miles downstream from Cincinnati.

Early settlers on this continent found the forests and grasslands interspersed with swamps, ponds, and marshes. But now 55% of America's wetlands have been drained and we still lose more than 400,000 acres of wetlands every year.

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 Programs

 Field Trips

 

 

Clean Sweep of the Great
Miami 2012

 

Saturday, May 19, 2012

9 A.M. to Noon

 

Meet at the entrance parking lot.

We will provide, bags, water,

gloves and a T-shirt.

 

Anyone with a truck we can use please

email Kani Meyer kaniau@yahoo.com

or call at 513-948-8630

June 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

301 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg

The Oxbow, Inc. Office

 

We live in an increasingly urbanized world where green space is becoming less common and more valued. Landscapes provide an extension of the livable environment where people interact with their world and each other. However, most landscapes are not sustainable, with poor plant choices, inadequate design, and poor use of precious resources. A variety of problems arise making these landscapes unhealthy for humans as well as the plants and animals that use them. Mark Deacon, Chair of Landscape Horticultural Technologies at Cincinnati State will address these issues and point us toward good landscaping.

Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:00 AM

Birds & Herps

Meet: In the upper Oxbow parking lot at the main entrance just beyond the cement plant

Leader: Paul Krusling, (513) 471-2954, pkrusling@fuse.net

 

During the second half of April, Spring should be well advanced . Depending on the species of bird, spring migration will be either near peak, just beginning or just winding down. In other words, a great diversity of species should be found in the Oxbow area on this date. Waterfowl, herons, shorebirds, raptors and migrant songbirds are all expected. Additionally the warming weather will see a variety of herps (reptiles & amphibians) become active and the Oxbow and lower Great Miami River is a great place to see them as well. On this trip we will have to look both up and down, as we will focus on birds and herps.

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Date Change Notice!!!

 

What’s Up Under Your Trees? Native Shrub Workshop

June 16, 9am to 3pm, Earth Connection $8.00 (includes lunch)

RSVP Kathy McDonald at Kathy@cincinnatibirds.com or call 513.941.6497.

 

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Click on the Image Below for a Local Map of the Oxbow

Please email comments and suggestions to Kani Meyer at kaniau@yahoo.com