Quail Hollow State Park - Ecology

Ecology

Quail Hollow State Park is in a rich agricultural area. Northeast Ohio is part of the Interior Plains region of North America. The land is largely flat with a few hills that are a remnant of the last ice age. Small glacial lakes, known as kettle lakes are spread throughout the region. These lakes formed when the glaciers gouged out a depression in the land and large clumps of ice broke off the receding glaciers filling the holes and creating lakes.

One of these kettle lakes has shrunk into what is best classified as a bog at Quail Hollow State Park. This bog provides a habitat for and abundance of plants and wildlife. Poison sumac grows in the sphagnum bog. There is a remnant tall grass prairie in the park that supports sneezeweed, blazing star and various other prairie plants. The mixed tree forests of the park provide habitat for White-tailed deer, Spring Peepers, Wild Turkey, Chorus and dGreen Frogs, raccoon, and red foxes.