California Woods Nature Preserve and Center

Calling all Girl Scouts. Learn the history and mystery of Ohio’s oldest sweet, maple sugar at California Woods!

This is your ticket to Willy Wonka’s forest-factory, where our highly qualified sugar trees make sweetness out of sunshine and thin air.

Want to learn more about nature in winter? Join us for some or all topics this weekly series, where we’ll dig deeper than your average nature hike!

Want to learn more about nature in winter? Join us for some or all topics this weekly series, where we’ll dig deeper than your average nature hike!

Join our team for one date or all of them. We will restore our beautiful native forest by killing invasive plants or stopping their spread. From late Fall through Winter and early Spring we'll cut and stack bush honeysuckle and other woody invasives. In Spring we'll pull and bag garlic mustard. In late Summer and early Fall we’ll pull and bag Japanese stilt grass and Japanese chaff flower, and throughout the year we may engage in other habitat restoration projects. This will usually be off trail in wooded, often hilly terrain.