Cleveland Museum purchases third Trumbull Co. parcel

WARREN — There are 293 acres of nearly pristine swamp forest in Bristol Township, just north and east of the intersection of Bristol-Champion Townline Road and Downs Road, where members of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History will soon be able to see rare plants and possibly even endangered animals.

That is because the museum recently was approved to use money from the state’s Clean Ohio Conservation Program to buy the land.

A committee of the Eastgate Regional Council of Governments also approved the use of Clean Ohio funds so Howland Township could purchase 12 acres north of North River Road just east of North Road and allowed the Trumbull County Planning Commission to buy 142 acres on North Road, just south of North Road Elementary School.

David Kriska, the museum’s biodiversity coordinator, said the property will be the museum’s third in Trumbull County among more than 35 that it owns in northern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania. The two other Trumbull County properties are in Mesopotamia and Hartford townships.

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