The sign outside of Enon Sand & Gravel, LLC s offices
A judge in Clark County has granted an injunction in a lawsuit filed by local residents against Enon Sand & Gravel.
The judge’s decision said Enon Sand & Gravel, a subsidiary of The Jurgensen Companies, must get a conditional use permit from the county s board of zoning appeals before it starts mining on certain parcels the company owns in Mad River Township.
Enon Sand & Gravel s attorneys argued in court that mining on that land commenced before November 1964,when Clark County formed its zoning board. Therefore, the company said, it should be exempt from needing a permit.
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A wet sedge meadow in Clark County where the Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid blooms in June
Early last month in Clark County, just east of Dayton, volunteers helped state naturalists from the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves (DNAP) protect a federally endangered flower.
The flower likes native grassy meadows, but most of those in Ohio were turned into farm fields over a century ago. But here, in a tiny wet sedge meadow surrounded by farm fields in Clark County, the orchid is thriving.
Volunteers from around the state took a sunny weekday morning to root out trees like dogwoods and willows that were threatening to shade out the little flower.