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The first settlers considered the wet prairies of the Darby Plains as unfit for agriculture and referred to them as the “barrens.” The land was used initially for pasture. In time, ditching and tiling transformed the inhospitable wet prairie into valuable agricultural land.
By the start of the 21st century, Metro Parks had restored about 400 acres of prairie at Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park. All of the reconstructed prairies to that date were created on land that had been farmed or used for pasture, and which still included drainage tiles. A far larger project, to create wet prairies of the type widely known in the Darby Plains before European settlement was begun in the early 2000s.
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Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks (Metro Parks) is a public agency serving the citizens of central Ohio by providing a regional system of clean, safe, natural area parks. Metro Parks features 20 outstanding natural area parks with more than 230 miles of trails and over 28,700 acres of land in seven central Ohio counties.
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