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Watch a video on trail preparation at the new Beaty Landing in Painesville.
Lake Metroparks Natural Resources Department manages a variety of habitat types on its over 7,000 acres. Forests, wetlands, old fields and meadows predominate much of the landscape within the park system. These habitats are managed actively when necessary.
In old field and meadow habitats the management involves limiting the natural progression of plant communities.
Keeping vegetation in an early state of growth by periodic mowing or burning and occasionally the use of herbicide, is a common practice for land managers and can be done to minimize disturbance to nesting animals.
Although Lake Metroparks maintains a proactive hazardous tree removal program, active forest management is seldom an issue. The park system does however monitor its forested land to ensure exotic plant and pest infestations do not threaten forest health.
Wetland, river and stream habitats are monitored and protected from exotic plant infestations as well. Lake County is fortunate to have two major rivers and their associated tributaries flowing through it. These important natural features have become the framework for land protection throughout our park system.
Other active management practices include a nest box program, annual fish stockings, park-wide tree planting, an ongoing white-tail deer impact study and active resource monitoring and mapping. Click for information about rare plants and animals found in Lake Metroparks. For questions regarding resource management issues at Lake Metroparks feel free to contact Natural Resource Manager Tom Adair at (440) 352-2138.
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