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Mud Creek Natural Area

A 1,038-acre area within the Mark Twain National Forest located 10 miles northeast of Poplar Bluff in Sections 22, 23, 26, 27 and 28, T26N, R7E, Rombauer and Wappapello 7.5 min. topographic maps. Access is by foot from the north across adjacent U.S. Forest Service land. Designated June 20, 1988.

Natural Features--Mesic, wet-mesic, and wet bottomland forest communities in the Lower Ozarks Section of the Ozark Natural Division. This tract represents a cross-section from the dry Ozarkian oak-hickory forest to wet, swampy floodplain forests of the Bootheel. Three unusual plants, Nuttall's oak, Halberd-leaved tear thumb and purple fringeless orchid are on the area. For further information and a brochure of the site contact the District Ranger, Poplar Bluff Ranger District, P. O. Box 988, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901, phone 573/785-1475.

Mud Creek Natural Area