Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve
| Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve | |
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 The estuary in early spring | |
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| Location | Erie County, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 41°22′34″N 82°30′42″W / 41.3761°N 82.5116°W |
| Area | 573 acres (232 ha) |
| Established | 1980 |
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Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve is the smallest reserve in the
freshwater estuaries in the system; the other being Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve. Located in Erie County, Ohio near Sandusky, the reserve features freshwater marshes, swamp forests, a barrier beach, upland forest, estuarine waters, stream and nearshore Lake Erie. Photographic atlases containing descriptions and identifications of many of the invertebrates found at Old Woman Creek have been prepared by Dr. Kenneth Krieger of the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg University
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References
This article incorporates
NOAA
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External links
- Old Woman Creek Reports Heidelberg University
