Hellbender Bluff Park.
- The Hellbender Bluff Park currently consists of over 750 acres. The park is a public hunting area and is also home to the endangered Hellbender Salamander.
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The Hellbender Bluff Park features 100 acres of reclaimed stripmine land which is the site or current and future reforestation. Once the soil was loosened by a ripping bar attachd to a 200 hoursepower tractor, volunteers planted a mix of hardwood trees including hickories, dogwood, oaks, redbud, maple, black locust, and ten blight resistant American Chestnuts.
The hellbender salamander is a giant salamander native to North America. They inhabit large, fast-flowing, rocky streams, such as the Little Beaver Creek. They feed on crayfish and small fish. Hellbenders have been classified as an endangered species in Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, and Ohio, and "rare" or "of special concern" in Georgia, Kentucky, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee.
The Hellbender Bluff Park is one of the few surviving intact habitats home to these large salamanders and the Columbiana County Park District plans to keep it that way.
