Explore AOA’s relatively new 70-acre Wylie Ridge Preserve along Dunlap Road in Gibisonville.  Wylie Ridge is part of our Laurel Run Preserve Initiative that protects water quality in the upper Laurel Run watershed.  This area has been a long-term priority for AOA and includes AOA’s first conservation easement.  To date, AOA has preserved 13 properties […]

Enjoy short hikes on two of AOA’s Scioto River Preserves.  We will start out at AOA’s Scioto Bend Preserve where we will tour the recently completed phase 1 site restoration enhancements.  Recently flooded for only the second time in over 100 years we will view the western levee breach, beaver dam analogs and other wetland […]

Springtime is upon us again after a cold winter.  Join us for an early spring hike on AOA’s beautiful Lamb Preserve. The last few years we have celebrated the arrival of spring with the massive bloom of White Trout Lilies at AOA's Lamb Preserve. We will wander along the stream tributary and riparian corridor bottomlands […]