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Oxbow Meadows Treetop Trail
Trail Site

Oxbow Meadows is located in an area where the Chattahoochee River wandered through big looping oxbow bends, creating a lowland forest that flooded on a regular basis.  Wetlands existed in old cut-off oxbow channels
The area was subjected to intense gravel mining, which created great shallow pools.  Then the area was used for waste disposal.  The Columbus sewage treatment plant is in the area.  Solid waste was historically dumped in the area now used for interpretation.
The climate here supports rapid plant growth.  Trees have reclaimed areas once leveled by bulldozers.  And plant and animal life has colonized the collection of shallow ponds.  Humans have introduced a variety of plant and animal species that are not native to the Oxbow ecosystem, which have interwoven with the native species in a variety of ways.
The initial trail section was built in a small collection of larger trees overlooking the duckweed pond.  Trees include white oak, water oak, Southern red oak, beech, sweet gum, magnolia, cherry and a variety of introduced species.

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