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Construction Updates
Nature Realm | Towpath Trail | Green Building
Updated September 30, 2008. For more information, call 330-867-5511.
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F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm
The Nature Realm building and grounds will close completely December 1, 2008. (Starting in November, only the visitors center lobby and restrooms will be open.) When the Nature Realm reopens next year, new exhibits and green features will greet visitors.
Outside, adjustments will be made to the entrance, parking lot and nearby walkways. Inside, brand-new exhibits will highlight the ways "Nature Is Good For You."
During construction, an information post will be set up at Charles Goodyear Memorial Pavilion in Goodyear Heights Metro Park. While there, visitors will be able to talk with naturalists, ask questions and pick up maps and publications.
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Towpath Trail: Various sections
The Cascade Locks Phase II section is now open, leading from the Mustill Store to downtown Akron (pictured at right). Work on the section from Summit Lake to Waterloo Road began June 18 and will be completed in 2009. From Manchester Road to US 224 the trail is essentially complete. The area has been seeded and mulched. Railings are going in next, and plants will be installed in spring 2009. The PPG stretch between Vanderhoof and Eastern roads was completed in August.
Currently, the park district manages 18 miles of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. When construction is complete, that number will increase to 23 miles.
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Green Building
Metro Parks is done renovating and adding on to an existing building in Sand Run Metro Park. It's a former private residence on Sand Run Parkway that the park district acquired as a life estate in 2003.
The green building includes geothermal heating, waterless toilets, solar panels, a green roof, lumber from downed trees in the Metro Parks, and recycled carpet, furniture and cabinetry. Outside, the features include porous pavement, a rain garden, rain barrels and native landscaping. Some of the original building materials were "recycled" by Habitat for Humanity. MORE
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Venomous Snakes
Twenty-seven snake species are found in Ohio, but only three are venomous: timber rattle, copperhead and massasauga. None are typically found in Summit County.
Cough, Cough
Native Americans used the inner bark of maple trees to make a cough-relieving tea.
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