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~ RiverDay 2016 ~
Saturday, May 21
Big Creek Historic/Prehistoric Tour
1–3:00 pm

Join an easy 2‐mile hike from Brookside Reservation to West Park Cemetery and back to view Big Creek "before I‐71."

Join Cleveland Museum of Natural History paleontologists and examine fossil replicas of the giant carnivorous fish Dunkleosteus found during the excavation and leveling of the landscape.

Visit the grave site of Cleveland Metroparks founder William Stinchcomb, where the cemetery was divided by the highway.

Learn about plans to return Big Creek into its historic channel.

Light refreshments.

Meet: Park along John Nagy Blvd. off Ridge Rd. in Cleveland Metroparks Brookside Reservation.

Sponsored by Big Creek Connects and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

RiverDay 2016
Be sure to check out other RiverDay events too! RiverDay began in 1990 as a way to get people involved in hands-on activities that would bring people to appreciate the amazing recovery that has taken place on and around the Cuyahoga River.
Visit http://www.crookedriverday.org

Big Creek Connects

I-71 looking east from Ridge Rd.

350 million years ago this was a shallow lake and Dunkleosteus was the top predator—as big as a bus you might see on the highway today.

The drop structure on Big Creek in Brookside Reservation prevents our current-day fish from swimming upstream.

-SAVE THESE DATES-

Greater Cleveland Trails & Greenways Conference.
Thurs., June 2
8:30 AM – 5:30 PM.
4th Biennial Conference: “Connecting Recreation and Transportation." CEUs available. Agenda and registration at GCTrails.org.

18th Annual Big Creek Watershed Cleanup
Sat., June 4
9 AM‐NOON.

Big Creek Connects (former Friends of Big Creek)
Celebrating 10 years!
P.O. Box 609272 | 4352 Pearl Road, Suite C |Cleveland, Ohio 44109
www.bigcreekconnects.org
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