There are four research ponds at the farm, which include Insect pond, Squire pond, Doc's pond and Upper pond. These ponds drain to a ravine and into the Chagrin River. They were designed in 1959 by Dr. Charles Davis for research purposes.
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The interpretive trail is 2.08 miles long. It was designed in 1982 to show the wildlife habitat, successional stages of vegetation and geological formations of northeastern Ohio. The trail contains 32 marked stations and is designated by dark brown posts with white numbers or arrows. Points along the way feature hedgerows, a pedestrian bridge, cucumber trees, grape vines and more.
Two existing weather stations have been upgrade as part of a planned effort to install a high-resolution environmental monitoring network at the farm. The goal is to improve understanding of the interaction of environment and populations of animal and plant species at the scale of the individual organism for research and teaching. The upgrade was done by Dr. Joseph Koonce and funded by the Oglebay fund. The weather information can be obtained on-line from two extreme habitats. In a open field, probes are monitoring incident solar radiation, temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and soil moisture. In the forest site, probes currently monitor temperature, relative humidity, soil moisture, solar radiation and wind speed
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