FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM

MARIETTA, OH

Leith Run Campground The Leith Run Recreation Area is one of the Wayne National Forest’s most well-loved destinations. Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, it features a developed campground with electric hookups, two picnic shelters, fishing decks, and a playground. There is also a hiking trailhead on site and a boat ramp nearby.

Forest Service photo by Gary Chancey. — Leith Run Campground Credit: Wayne National Forest

Friends of the Museum is a non-profit organization located in Marietta, Ohio, dedicated to the preservation and promotion of local history and culture. The organization was founded in 1982 to support the Campus Martius Museum, which houses exhibits related to the early history of Ohio and the Northwest Territory. The Friends of the Museum provide funding and volunteer support to the museum, helping to maintain its collections, develop new exhibits, and host educational programs and events for visitors of all ages.

In addition to its support of the Campus Martius Museum, Friends of the Museum also works to promote the history and culture of Marietta and the surrounding area. The organization sponsors a variety of community events and programs throughout the year, including lectures, tours, and special exhibits. Members of the Friends of the Museum also have the opportunity to participate in volunteer activities and educational workshops related to local history and culture.

Overall, Friends of the Museum plays a vital role in preserving and promoting the rich history and culture of Marietta and the Northwest Territory. Through its support of the Campus Martius Museum and its many community programs and events, the organization helps to ensure that this important legacy is passed down to future generations.

FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in MARIETTA OH. US MID #8403900581

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 277,785 from tax period 201306 (YYYYMM).

Backwater Along the Ohio River at Leith Run Leith Run, a small creek, feeds into the large Ohio River at the Leith Run Recreation Area and Campground. Where the two streams meet, a small backwater forms. This backwater provides dense, still-water cover to many fish and other aquatic species. In particular, these backwaters are important for young fish that would otherwise be great snacks out in the open water.

Photo by the Forest Service.

Frontier Boat Launch The Frontier Boat Launch provides access to the Ohio River.

Forest Service photo by Gary Chancey.

Frontier Boat Launch The Frontier Boat Launch is located in the national forest’s Marietta Unit, right off Ohio State Route 7. It includes a wide boat launch that can handle two vehicles at the same time, as well as 70 parking spaces for trucks and trailers plus additional parking for cars. The parking area is even open all night seven days a week, so overnight parking of vehicles and trailers is allowed!

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Hune Covered Bridge The historic Hune Covered Bridge as it crosses the Little Muskingum River by the national forest's Hune Bridge Campground.

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Scenic River Trail A view of the Scenic River Trail as it cuts through an understory of wildflowers in the spring. This trail is open to mountain biking, walking, hiking, and trail running.

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Ohio River at the Frontier Boat Launch The mighty Ohio River as seen from the Frontier Boat Launch.

The Frontier Boat Launch is located in the national forest’s Marietta Unit, right off Ohio State Route 7. It includes a wide boat launch that can handle two vehicles at the same time, as well as 70 parking spaces for trucks and trailers plus additional parking for cars. The parking area is even open all night seven days a week, so overnight parking of vehicles and trailers is allowed!

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Young, Shrubby Forest A young, shrubby forest that was established through a timber harvest.

This type of habitat has gone by many names over the past decades, including early-successional habitat, young forest, regenerating forest, shrubland, and more. No matter what name you know it by, this habitat has a few key features. First, the trees are young, small, and short. Second, the short vegetation is really dense and filled with herbaceous plants, shrubs, and saplings.

This state of a forest dominated by young trees is fleeting. As the trees get older, the young forest transitions to another type of ecosystem state that looks and acts differently, and supports different plants and animals.

Patches of young forests were historically created by weather events like tornados or windstorms, beaver activity, higher-intensity fires, land clearing by Indigenous peoples, and other types of forces. In more recent times, weather events, timber harvests, and the abandonment of agricultural fields have been responsible for creating this ephemeral ecosystem state.

But there’s been a change in the past 50 years. Patches of young forest have been disappearing across Ohio and throughout the eastern United States. And as this habitat disappears, so too do the animals—like the prairie warbler—that rely on it. Patches of young forests have to be created by some kind of event. Every patch will eventually “age out,” and so for there to continually be enough available for animals to use, there have to continually be forces that create it. And in the past several decades, there haven’t been a lot of forces creating new patches.

To help bolster the declining populations of animals that rely on and use young forests, land stewards across the eastern United States have been creating more patches of it. These patches can be created in a variety of ways. Grass lawns and farm fields can be “let go” and have trees colonize on their own. Old, shrubby fields can be regularly cut back every several years. Patches of trees in a forest over 30 years old can be cut and removed. Such efforts by land stewards—coupled with weather events and other forces—can all help bolster the amount of young forest available across the landscape. And to borrow a famous phrase, “if you build it, they will come.”

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Contact FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM

FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM INC
601 2ND STREET
MARIETTA
OH
45750

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MID #	8403900581
Name	FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM INC
Alternate Name	FRIENDS OF THE MUSEUM
Classification	Uncategorized or General Museums, , Midwest
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	311034071
NTEECC	A54
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201306
INCOME	315,382
REVENUE	277,785
LAT/LONG	39.421606, -81.461096
CODES	FIPS State Code: 39 FIPS County Code: 167 US Census Tract: 020800 US Census Block: 1019