Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve
The estuary in early spring
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Location	Erie County, Ohio
Coordinates	41°22′34″N 82°30′42″W / 41.3761°N 82.5116°W / 41.3761; -82.5116
Area	573 acres (232 ha)
Established	1980
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Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve is the smallest reserve in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System at 573 acres (232 ha). It is one of two Great Lakes-type, freshwater estuaries in the system; the other being Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve. Located in Erie County, Ohio near Sandusky, the reserve features freshwater marshes, swamp forests, a barrier beach, upland forest, estuarine waters, stream and nearshore Lake Erie. Photographic atlases containing descriptions and identifications of many of the invertebrates found at Old Woman Creek have been prepared by Dr. Kenneth Krieger of the National Center for Water Quality Research at Heidelberg University.

References[edit]

• Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the NOAA.

External links[edit]

• Old Woman Creek Reports Heidelberg University