With some human assistance, Mother Nature is reclaiming several hundred acres of what used to be an Akron golf course.
This summer, Summit Metro Parks started construction on one of the final phases of a project to restore the former Valley View Golf Club. The park system purchased the 200-acre golf course in 2016, adding the Valley View Area to Cascade Valley Metro Park and re-establishing the land’s natural features.
“It’ll be exciting to see what it’s like when it’s done. You have a vision of what it’s going to be,” said Greg Courtemanche. “For a couple hundred years, people have been generally been trying to push nature away,” said Robert Curtis, the Supervisor of Ecological Resources at Summit Metro Parks. “We basically set the stage for nature to take it the rest of the way.”
“We’ve created 25 acres of wetlands, about 2,500 lineal feet of streams, and then phase 2 of the project was to restore the river,” Curtis said. She said river quality monitoring now shows the fish population has tripled, and species that could not have previously survived are thriving in the river. “As we’ve restored this section of the Cuyahoga River a result of the restoration of Valley View, people have really expressed a desire to enjoy it. We’re bringing that opportunity to them,” Merrick said.
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