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Create Your Own Pollinator Garden

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Looking for a way to help our local pollinators beyond National Pollinators Week? Why not try planting a pollinator garden! Read on for some pollinator garden basics to help get you started.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Replay: Butterfly Fashion Show

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Regional Education Manager Julie has found an interesting gaggle of butterflies at Woodland Mound and tells us more about what makes each butterfly species unique.

A monarch butterfly enjoys the nectar of common milkweed.

Replay: Pollinator Garden Tour

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Go on a tour of the butterfly garden at Glenwood Gardens with Highfield Discovery Garden Manger Doug and Nature Interpreter Lisa and learn more about these important plants.

An adult bald eagle perches in a tree.

One Flew Over the Eagle’s Nest

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Not only is June 20 the first day of summer, but it’s American Eagle Day. While we honor America’s national bird, we have an even bigger reason to celebrate eagles this year: bald eagles in Ohio.

A blue dragonfly sits atop a blade of grass.

Replay: Wildlife at Sharon Lake

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! What’s in Sharon Lake? Take a walk as we explore with Nature Interpreter Lisa to see what Ohio wildlife lives at Sharon Lake.

Replay: Nature’s Hidden Treasures

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! Nature Interpreter shows us some of nature’s hidden treasures that may be hiding right in front of your eyes. Find some wonders of nature with us at Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve.

Spotted Salamander

Replay: The Fascinating Life of Salamanders

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! Director of Education & Events Amy is sharing all about the fascinating life of spotted salamanders. Do you want to know how salamanders absorb water? Tune in to find out!

Replay: Crayfish Quest

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff! Blue crayfish have been spotted at Sharon Woods and Nature Interpreter Tom is taking to the creek to try and find one!