Places We Protect




The Nature Conservancy envisions Ohio thriving with healthy streams, wetlands, and forests that will help revitalize the globally significant Great Lakes and Ohio River. With partners, we will conserve the most vital freshwater and forest habitats in Ohio and support the conservation of related habitats beyond our borders.


Since 1958, the Conservancy has protected nearly 40,000 acres of critical natural lands in Ohio. To learn more about our work, click on the location names on the map or on the listings below. Preserves and projects are marked on the map with red dots; Priority Conservation Areas are listed in black text.


Go take a hike!  Visit one of the Conservancy's Open Preserves in Ohio.

  Kitty Todd Sandusky Bay Morgan Swamp White Pine Bog Forest Beck Fen Herrick Fen Flatiron Lake Bog Still Fork Swamp Brown's Lake Bog Dublin Office Darby Creek Watershed Strait Creek Edge Of Appalachia Glade Wetland Baker Swamp



Oak Openings Region
Kitty Todd Preserve

Central Lake Erie Watersheds
Morgan Swamp

Glacial Wetlands
White Pine Bog
Beck Fen
Herrick Fen
Flatiron Lake Bog
 


Lower Scioto River
Darby Creek Watershed
   • Big Darby Headwaters 
• Glade Wetland
Baker Swamp

Appalachian Forests
Edge of Appalachia
Ironton Forest
Strait Creek 

Other
Stillfork Swamp
Lake Erie
Brown's Lake Bog
• Ohio River
Local parks originally protected by The Nature Conservancy