North Central Ohio Land Conservancy, Inc.

03/13/2026

Join us for an Old Growth Forest Hike this Sunday, 3/15 at 10 am!

We will be meeting at the gravel lot off Benedict and Wilson Rd. to hike part of the Clear Fork Valley Scenic Trail. The weather is looking to be in the 50's, but please come prepared for some potential mud as we check out a patch of skunk cabbage! We hope to see you Sunday!🌱

02/03/2026

11/27/2025

These 14 people from Team Rubicon put in a solid 6 hours of volunteer labor this past weekend removing multiflora rose from land NCOLC just purchased in order to enhance the CFVST - a public trail that connects the village of Butler to Malabar Farm State Park. Every one of these volunteers live outside of Richland County, but they gathered here to help us provide recreational opportunities to the public and to the disabled children who attend our next-door neighbor, camp Nuhop. Team Rubicon is an international rescue organization that joins us for training events and that always gives back through their free labor. This is the seventh time they have come to our trail for training and to do public service. They are a “force multiplier“ whose skilled labor doubles the impact of the donations you make to NCOLC. Please help us by donating whatever amount you feel you can afford. We will continue to stretch the impact of your gift with volunteer labor.

11/24/2025

Thank you to all of our generous donors. We appreciate all of your support and kindness. Our campaign continues through December 2nd and we are getting closer to our goal.

Please check out our Healing Land & People 2026 campaign at https://richlandgives.mightycause.com/story/x6ev1f

We have exciting things coming!

Scenic places to hike in Richland County protected forever!

11/24/2025

Richland Gives is in full swing.... stop in and visit our Peer-to-Peer friends....The Native Yard Project at their site too.

Cash for Grass Grants help residents pay for native plants, which helps our disappearing pollinators

11/17/2025

Richland County Foundation is absorbing the cost of the fundraising platform fees so that if you give by any other means than credit card (these transactions will still be charged 2.9% by the credit card companies plus $0.30 per transaction), through this campaign, all the money you donate will count toward the goal. So, if we raise $7,000 from you, our past donors, in time it will translate into $15,000 and get us off to a good start toward winning other prizes that we will shoot for on the last day of the campaign.

So please making a gift to NCOLC by going on the Richland Gives site and looking for "Healing Land & People 2026”.

https://richlandgives.mightycause.com/story/x6ev1f

11/14/2025

Richland Gives begins on Monday, November 17th. We have set out our target date as November 20th for the day we hope to get into the prize categories and increase our donations. Please join see us at https://richlandgives.mightycause.com/story/x6ev1f and support Healing Land & People and the preservation of our beautiful trails.

We have a matching grant that will appear on our page on November 20th please join us that date to help us meet our goal!

We appreciate all of our donors, thank you for being part of continuing our mission.

Scenic places to hike in Richland County protected forever!

08/30/2025

Please join us for Dr. Tim Berra's book launch on Tuesday, September 2nd at 5 p.m.

04/02/2025

An interesting program from that Maryland Native Plant Society.....

MNPS Monthly Program: Healthier Lawns for a Healthier Environment with Mark Brownlee

04/29/2025 7:00 PM
Zoom Meeting

Register: http://www.mdflora.org/event-5894792

Speaker: Mark Brownlee

YOU MUST REGISTER IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK

Zoom opens at 7:00PM for pre-program board update and member Q&A. Presentations begin at 7:30PM and generally run until 8:45PM.

Healthier Lawns for a Healthier Environment – A conversation about “wild” lawns

Take a visual tour of native wild lawns and explore what they are, where they are, and why they exist. Learn what you need to do to get your own wild lawn, and the type of maintenance that they require.

Mark is an engineer, an ecologist, and a botanist. He has been designing and leading restoration programs throughout the mid-Atlantic for nearly 20 years. Mark specializes in discovering why native plants and native plant communities emerge in some places but not others. His favorite ecosystem is high elevation bogs. He is married with two kids in college.

We can accommodate the first 300 people who enter the Zoom meeting at the meeting time. After you register, you will receive a registration confirmation email with a link to the Zoom meeting. Registering does not guarantee a space in the Zoom meeting.

Zoom opens at 7:00PM for pre-program board update and member Q&A. Presentations begin at 7:30PM and generally run until 8:45PM.

The program is free and open to the public.

To invite others, please copy and send them this link: MNPS Monthly Program: Healthier Lawns for a Healthier Environment with Mark Brownlee http://www.mdflora.org/event-5894792

We’re protecting Maryland's native plants and habitats through conservation, education, advocacy, and service activities.

03/28/2025

Check out these fun events that the Mohican Native Plant Society has coming up:

Mid-April Willard Reservoir, led by Bob & Ruth Brown (567-224-3348), 2954 State Route 61, Willard, OH 44890. This will be a pop-up event timed to catch the blooming of twin leaf. We’ll announce the date and time a couple of days in advance.

April 17, 2025 5:30 pm Crall Woods, led by Bob & Ruth Brown (567-224-3348), 263 Township Highway 1601, Greenwich OH 44837, just south of Route 224. This old growth woods is one of the best sites in the area for diversity of spring wildflowers.

April 19, 2025 11 am Killbuck Swamp Preserve (Quarry Bluff Trail & Turtle Pond Trail), led by Randy Carmel, 10114 SR 520, Killbuck OH. Coming down Route 60 toward Killbuck, it is on the west side of Killbuck village at the junction of County Road 621 and State Route 520. Pack a lunch. There is information at www.killbuckwatershedlandtrust.org/preserves,
including a link to a map.

April 26, 2025 10 am Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve, led by Dick Stoffer (419-545-5746), 7815 Olivesburg-Fitchville Road. Information at ohiodnr.gov/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-a-property/fowler-woodsstate-nature-preserve.

May 17, 2025 10:30 am Lakeside Daisies & Resthaven Wildlife Area (Castalia Prairie), led by Bill Styer (419-554-0824). Bring your picnic lunch. Start at Lakeside Daisy State Nature Preserve, 309 Alexander Pike, Marblehead, OH 43440. The state endangered Lakeside daisies should be blooming. We’ll eat lunch near the lighthouse, then drive to Castalia Prairie to see small white lady-slipper orchids.
May 24, 2025 1 pm Byers Woods, led by Mary Meixner (Park Naturalist and Outreach Coordinator, Ashland Co. Park District), 675 County Road 1754, Ashland OH 44805. This will combine a wildflower/native plant walk & birdwatching. Bring your binoculars: we hope to see Bobolinks and Meadowlarks.

May 29, 2025 6:30 pm Hopewood Pines Lutheran Church Camp, led by Jennifer Clevenger, 2790 State Rte. 61, Marengo OH 43334 (near Fulton). This site has 400 acres of bottomland at the headwaters of Alum Creek.

02/25/2025

Invasive Species removal is a huge part of what NCOLC's Healing Land & People program does. Please help protect our beautiful lands!