Adventurers hiked a 1 mi. trail through the moonscape-like scenery of Lorain’s steel mill waste lands, now in ecological recovery. Then, they enjoyed a 4 mi. paddle on the Black River along the steel mill, observing the results of recent restoration work, including an active heron rookery
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- Miles of piles of slag and steel mill waste create a landscape unlike Ohio
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- Hikers see first-hand how nature is reclaiming even the starkest of waste piles
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- A heron rookery thrives with hundreds of nests on the edge of the Black River
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- Paddling the wide, flat water of the Black River
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- Paddling through steel mill lands along the Black River
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