Hike AOA’s Poston Farm Preserve located along Alum Creek and the West Branch of Alum Creek.  We will enjoy the peak spring wildflowers, older growth forests and scenic exposed shale bluffs the line the stream corridors.  We will also view recent habitat restoration activities on this spectacular site. Alum Creek is a diverse riparian […]

    Join us for a spring wildflower hike on one of AOA’s newest conserved properties in the heart of the Hocking Hills.  AOA recently purchased a spectacular 111-acre parcel along Queer Creek from the Johnson family.  Located in the unincorporated community of South Bloomingville, the parcel protects both sides of a stretch of Queer […]

  AOA will sponsor another volunteer tree planting this week to help reforest our Preserves.  AOA is partnering with Green Columbus to plant tree seedlings on AOA’s Utzinger Bog Preserve in Franklin County.  This event is part of a massive reforestation effort AOA is undertaking this spring that includes the planting of hundreds of thousands […]