Wisteria Event Campground, Community, and Nature Retreat
		Home Campground Community Preserve  Links Site Map Updates Contact Events   Cornstalk Festival Summer Solstice Autumn Fires         Camping/Facilities    What to Bring  Directions  Merchants   Local Accommodations  Info/Policies   Volunteer  Food	Nature Retreat Nature Retreat: Over 200 acres of Wisteria have been designated as a permanent nature retreat.     Sanctuary: Wisteria's land is an important part of our community. The land is in the process of healing.  Part of our guiding principle is to honor and nurture the ecosystems of which we are a part.      Biodiversity: One third of our land is permanently protected as a nature preserve, it is home to coyote, deer, turkey, and others who roam through the Mixed Mesophytic Forest of beech, tulip tree, maple, oak, ash, elm, and cherry. In the spring, delicate wildflowers scatter across the forest floor.     Stone & Water: For thousands of years small streams have cut through the unglaciated Pottsville shales and sandstones of Wisteria. Today, deep ravines, rock outcroppings, and natural standing stones grace the forest.        Wisteria is situated on 620 private and rural acres in the Allegheny mountain plateau region of the Appalachian mountain chain.  Swisher Coal Company and others strip mined and lumbered the area beginning around 1959. Reclamation work was done by the state of Ohio from the mid-1980's until the mid-1990's. We now continue the reclamation of the land and water. email: info@wisteria.org phone: (740) 742-4302