Ohio is home to many forests with a mix of trees that grow in moist soils. These forests contain deciduous trees in well-drained, loamy soil with lots of leaf litter and decomposing leaves that release nutrients. In Northeast Ohio, these forests were once filled with a diverse group of native wildflowers, but now fewer species thrive due to an overpopulation of white-tailed deer.
Woods garden forests attract many rare forest bird species, including magnolia warblers, yellow-throated vireos, winter wrens, and veeries. Mammals include gray foxes, raccoons, chipmunks, and star-nosed moles. Pollinators such as the West Virginia white butterfly, polyphemous moth, and tuliptree silkmoth are also found in these forests.
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