Natural History
The watershed of the Maumee River was a large wetlands known as the Great Black Swamp. In the nineteenth century, settlers struggled to drain it to convert the fertile land to farmland, altering an important habitat for migrating birds and a variety of wildlife. The wetlands was the remains of Glacial Lake Maumee, the proglacial ancestor of Lake Erie.
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