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Welcome to the Friends of Big Walnut Creek and Rocky Fork and
Blacklick Tributaries website.
The Watersheds served are from below Hoover Dam to the Scioto River Confluence. We hope
you share our enthusiasm for these natural wonders right in our own
back yard. The mission of the Friends of Big
Walnut Creek is to protect and restore Big Walnut Creek and Rocky
Fork and Blacklick Tributaries for the mutual benefit of the human
and natural communities and to enhance stewardship within the
watershed through education, collaboration, monitoring. and
community clean-up efforts.
MORPC Balanced Growth "Draft
Plan" Ready for Review The Mid-Ohio
Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), an association of local
governments in central Ohio, worked with the Big Walnut Planning
Partnership (BWPP) to produce a BigWalnut Watershed Balanced Growth
Plan. The 121 page "Draft Plan" is now available for review. This
remarkable working document began in Ocotber 2010 with the following
Goals and Guiding Principles:
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A) Protect Environmental Resources
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B) Preserve the unique character of each
community
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C) Promote Development
If you want to learn about land use, population
projections, employment or impacts from impervious surfaces
and many more important topics in the Big Walnut Watershed then you
will want to take a close look at the plan by following the links
below:
The Draft Plan
Home Page with Stakeholders and remaining meetings
Ever think of the
Lower Big Walnut as an Urban Gem? Read Dan Binder and Kurt
Keljo's interview with Dr. Michael Hogarth in the latest
Newsletter.
FOBWCnewsletter2012
Friends of Big Walnut Meeting Agenda for May 15th
Stoneybrook United Methodist Church
6:30 PM,
TUESDAY, MAY 15TH
WELCOME & INTRODUCTIONS
ASSIGNMENT OF NOTETAKER: Bob K., All
TREASURER'S REPORT: Al (Previously e-mailed), membership dues
reminder
NOTETAKER'S REPORT: Bill M. (Previously e-mailed)
STREAM STEWARDS REPORTS: Bob B., Mark, Ellen, Dan, Bob K.
DAN & BOB K.: Update of mussel survey grant
DISCUSSION/PLANNING: Turkey Run (aka Windsor Ditch) clean-up
work day
WATERSHED COORDINATOR'S REPORT: Kurt
CHAIR'S REPORT: Bob K.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER: All
ADJOURN:
To protect the water we depend upon end the things that live in
it
Two Photo Mysteries
1) The first picture is an approximate 15'x15' area
at the Jackson Bog near Massillon, OH
2) The second picture is in the Polaris Mall area of Columbus
and has LEED implications
Rocky Fork Metro Park Update
by Steve Studenmund,
Strategic Planning & Land Acquisition for Metro Parks of
Franklin County
Thanks' to the efforts of
the City of Columbus, City of New Albany and
Plain Township, Metro Parks entered into a
partnership with all three to develop a new
park in Plain Township in 2008. Since that
time 650 acres have been acquired in
northeastern Franklin County. An advisory
group of community members was established
in the fall of this year to assist
in planning for the new park. A conceptual
plan has been developed after a series of
public open houses that focus on typical
metro park facilities and visitor
experiences including hiking, biking,
picnicking, play areas, birding, habitat
improvements to improve water quality
and forest restoration areas. Planning for
the first phase of development planned for
2012, is underway and will include nature
trails and a parking area near an existing
wetland complex.
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Meeting at the Emerging Rocky
Fork Metro Park
Several members of the Friends of Big Walnut Creek and Tributaries
and other interested persons walked and rode with Steve Studenmund,
Strategic Planning & Land Acquisition Manager for Metro Parks of
Franklin County. The Blacklick Park will be one special park when it
is open to the public (if they can do something with that mud).
There was only one vehicle that got stuck at the event.
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Friends of Big Walnut
Newsletter (2010 Issue)
"An Urban Oasis" picture by Henry Cahalla
Author Henry Crahalla
describes Gahanna's nearby Creekside Park in the latest FOBWC
Newsletter in "An Urban Oasis (The Natural Side of Creekside Park)".
This, updates on the Blacklick Creek Watershed Plan by Kurt Keljo,
Streamside Protection by Bob Bostard and pictures from the Big
Walnut, Rocky Fork and Blacklick Watersheds can be found by
following link below ...
FOBWC2010newsletter.pdf
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