Save the following dates for upcoming events at the Nature Preserve:

Sunday, February 19, 2012
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Great Backyard Bird Count

Saturday, May 19, 2012
7:30 am to 2:00 pm
Spring Open House - Migration Mania

Friday, April 20, 2012
9:00 am -11:00 am or Noon - 2:00 pm
Classroom Discovery Days
Attention TEACHERS:
Bring your class of students (grades 3-7) for an informative and fun field trip to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. All classes MUST register. Contact Nancy Howell at: nhowell@cmnh.org.  Registration is limited.

Click here to download an event flyer.

Saturday, September 22, 2012
7:30 am to 2:00 pm
Fall Open House - Nature in the Neighborhood

Look for more exciting news and changes at the Nature Preserve. Preparations are being made to relocate the entrance to the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve behind the ODNR State Park office. Wayfinding signage, an extended trail, trail markers, bike racks and more are on the way.

Photos are from a new wood-chip entrance trail being prepared from the pine trees near the ODNR State Park office parking lot to the new site entrance gate. Thanks to the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Cleveland Metroparks, the City of Cleveland, Collaborative members and many others for your support!

A new self-registration entrance kiosk near the new site entrance is being created by a local scout as his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project. Many thanks to The Garden Club of Cleveland for supporting this project.

Check back soon for more updates!

Nature in the Neighborhood welcomed visitors on September 24, 2011. Fall migration was in progress and areas were very wet due to recent rains; tons of goldenrod and boneset in bloom. Thanks to Collaborative members, volunteers and visitors. Take a look at the new wayfinding sigange.







I t was a beautiful sunny day for Migration Mania on May 21, 2011, a much needed break from a cool and rain spring in Cleveland. Volunteers pulled and disposed of bags and bags of garlic mustard. Download the Migration Mania Species List - 76 birds and 8 butterflies.

Download a list of birds from the 'Nature in the Neighborhood' May 16, 2009 open house at the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve.

Jim Bissell, Curator of Botany at the Cleveland Museum of Natural  History confirmed a new plant species to Cuyahoga County, growing in an unlikely habitat near the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. In June 2001, Jim visited Dike 14. When he left he cut across the lake bluff on State Park land and collected a few sedges from a seep on the Lake Bluff. The sedge, new to Cuyahoga County, keys to Carex brevior, a State Threatened species known from only two locations in Northeastern Ohio, NASA Plumbrook and the Museum’s North Kingsville Sand Barrens. The Museum’s Herbarium also has a historical specimen from Cedar Point in Erie County. Jim plans to relocate the population and do a count in June 2009.

Image courtesy of USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J. Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, and S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. General Technical Report RMS-GTR-10. USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Ogden.

The soil testing and risk assessment for the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve found that the site is safe for environmental education usage. To view the reports please visit the Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District's web site.

The Environmental Education Collaborative installed an informational kiosk at Cleveland Lakefront State Park near the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve gate. Visit the kiosk to learn more about the history and plans for the site.

Take a look at the 2008 Butterfly Count on the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve. Long Term Monitoring of Butterflies Transect – Fourth Year, April 1, 2008 –November 10, 2008. Thanks to Susan Gallagher and the Ohio Lepidopterists for this amazing research project.

Exit #177 from I-90. Parking is available at Gordon State Park. Entrances from North Marginal at E. 72nd Street, from North Marginal between E. 72nd and MLK, and park office entrance from Lakeshore Boulevard east of MLK. Additional space at E. 55th State Park (Exit SR 2).

For the safety and enjoyment of all visitors and the protection of the Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve, please use care when visiting:

• Stay on the established trail
• Do not remove or disturb plants
• Do not feed, remove or disturb wildlife
• No smoking or pets