Papers

Myxomycetes of Cedar Bog (Slime Molds)
By Karl Leo Braun The author has been collecting the true slime molds (Myxomycetes) in Cedar Bog during the summer months for over forty years. Most collections have been made in the swamp forest community, but some have been collected from the white cedar community as well. Those collected in the swamp forest have been found primarily on ground sites such as decaying logs and leaf litter. Corticolous Myxomycetes, those found growing on the bark of living trees and vines, have been found by placing the bark of the white cedars (Thuja occidentalis) in moist chambers and carefully watching for their development. The moist chamber technique (Gilbert and Martin, 1933) has been used extensively by the author to study the corticolous myxomycetes found in the white cedar community. The moist chamber technique involves collecting samples of tree bark and placing them in Petri dishes containing water soaked filter paper. The dishes are kept moist, and in a matter of days plasmodia and fruiting bodies develop which can then be studied and identified in the laboratory.

Ice Age
An Elementary science unit By Pete O'Neal Cedar Bog offers us a chance to experience what much of Ohio was like during the Ice Age. This unit focuses on basic glacial geology and Pliestocene mammology in order to help students to understand further what the environment around Cedar Bog (and elsewhere) was like back then.