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	<title>Pearson Lakeshore Gets A Makeover</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Click any photo to open a gallery.The lake at Pearson Metropark is getting a new, more natural-looking shoreline. Work began in June and will be completed in mid-August.The new shoreline will provide erosion control and a naturalistic setting, as well as improved access to the lake for fishing. A new aeration system has already been installed. A similar shoreline project is currently under way at Mallard Lake at Oak Openings Preserve Metropark.This is the latest in a lengthy list of recent projects at Pearson, including an addition to Macomber Lodge; renovations to a picnic shelter at the playground, a restroom building at the lake and a wildlife viewing room, called a Window on Wildlife. The Packer-Hammersmith Center, a rental facility, is currently being renovated.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 4 Aug 2012 11:16:38 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Downtown Riverfront Land To Be Next Metropark</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Land on the Maumee River in downtown Toledo will be the home of the next Metropark. The Middlegrounds will be developed over the next two years, thanks in part to a donation from the Rotary Club of Toledo.The half-mile of river frontage begins at the Anthony Wayne Bridge and extends southwest of Martin Luther King Plaza.The $1.2 million purchase price and other costs associated with the purchase were reimbursed to the park district from a grant through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Estuarine Land Conservation Program. The grant, totaling $1.5 million, was designated for the project by U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur in February 2005.The property will be an urban greenspace with a walking trail and scenic views of the Maumee River.About the Middlegrounds]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 13:26:03 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Westside Corridor Rail-Trail Project</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Photo: The Wabash Cannonball Trail is an example of a rail-trail created in a partnership between numerous local jurisdictions. Metroparks is the managing partner.Metroparks is one of several local agenciesthat hasacquired the 11-mile "West Side Corridor," a railroad right-of-way from Laskey Road to River Road in Lucas County that continues on to Bates Road in Wood County.In the future, the partner agencies envision the corridor being used for transportation, recreation and utilties similar to the popular University/Parks Trail and Wabash Cannonball Trail.Acquiring corridors like this one was one of the priorities outlined in Metroparks land acquisition plans, funded by a 0.3 mill levy approved by Lucas County voters in 2002.Metroparks owns a 1.6-mile stretch of the Trail from Glanzman Road to the Maumee River.Learn more:West Side Corridor (TMACOG)Benefits of rails-trails (Rails-to-Trails Conservancy)]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:00:35 EST</pubDate>
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