Are you a junior ranger in training? Visit Wolf Run Regional Park and find all the items below to earn your Knox County Park District Junior Ranger Certificate of Achievement!

Download Scavenger Hunt! sheets to take with you to Wolf Run.

Fill out a Certificate of Achievement and print it once you complete your visit to Wolf Run.

A bluebird box

A large boulder/rock you could sit on

Christmas ferns

A pond

Yellow-bellied sapsucker (woodpecker) holes

A cherry tree

A wooden bridge

A stream

An oak leaf

Animal signs (feather, hair, next, track, scat, etc.)

Clues:

Bluebirds and tree swallows abound at Wolf Run Park. These birds like cavities in which to nest. Bluebirds were once plentiful in Ohio, but when fencerows were cleared for agricultural lands, the bluebirds lost the locust wood posts they used for nesting cavities. Thanks to bluebird boxes installed at Wolf Run and other areas, bluebirds and tree swallows are increasing in numbers!

Eastern Bluebird, Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources

Read more about the Eastern Bluebird

Read more about the Tree Swallow

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a retreating glacier from the last ice age left tell-tale signs in the park. Large granite boulders and rocks from Canada that the glacier deposited dot the landscape of Wolf Run. Take a close look at these rocks...over thousands of years, primitive lichens have made their home on the boulders.

Christmas ferns like shady spots on wooded hills at the park. If you look closely at a piece of the fern, you can imagine a stocking or a sleigh.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Wolf Run Regional Park receives visits from a state endangered woodpecker, the yellow-bellied sapsucker. On a recent hike at Wolf Run, telltale signs of sapsucker activity were discovered on the Woodland trail.

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers exhibit a unique behavior when drilling holes in trees. They drill orderly rows of very small (smaller than a dime) holes in trees, returning later to dine on the bleeding sap and small insects attracted to the sap.

Read more about the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Hear the sound of a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Mature black cherry trees are sometimes called the "corn flake" tree, because their dark bark resembles corn flakes cereal!

Oak leaves come in many shapes and sizes at Wolf Run. Oak species that have rounded edges (much like the white mans' bullets) are in the white oak group. Oak species that have pointed edges (much like the red mans' arrows) are in the red oak group.

While you may not see many animals during your visit to Wolf Run, it isn't hard to find their signs. Look along stream banks or the pond for tracks.