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The Maple Heights Conservation District was established in 2018. The effort was led by neighborhood residents who wanted to prevent the area's historic fabric from being further destroyed through demolition and neglect. It has since become a Historic District.
Parks and Recreation manages the Maple Heights Naturescape, a prairie greenspace at the southeast border of Maple Heights Neighborhood. The naturescape is less than one acre in size, and is located at West 13th Street near the intersection of South Rogers Street and the railroad tracks. Close in proximity to Crestmont Park, the B-Line Trail, Miller-Showers Park, Griffy Lake, and Lower Cascades Park, this greenspace, small in comparison, functions as an important wildlife corridor connector; is a spring haven for migrating birds; and creates homes for pollinators, small animals, invertebrates, native wildflowers, shrubs. and low-stature trees.