the nature preserve includes different types of wetlands including swamp forest, boreal bog, and cattail marshes. twenty-four state-listed plants have been identified in the bog including autumn willow ("salix serissima"), bunchflower ("melanthium virginicum"), and cranberry ("vaccinium oxycoccos"). in 2000, the ohio odonata survey found a breeding population of the brush-tipped emerald dragonfly ("somatochlora walshii"), a species not previously known to exist in ohio.