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Mark Twain National Forest (MTNF) is a U.S. National Forest located in the southern half of Missouri, composed of nine disconnected parcels. MTNF was established on September 11, 1939. It is named for author Mark Twain, a Missouri native. The MTNF covers 3,068,800 acres (12,419 km 2) of which 1,506,100 acres (6,095 km 2) is public owned, 78,000 ...
03000713 [1] Added to NRHP. August 4, 2003. Houston Ranger Station Historic District is a national historic district located in Mark Twain National Forest near Houston, Texas County, Missouri. The district encompasses five frame and limestone buildings constructed by the Lynchburg Camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during 1936 and 1937.
August 4, 2003. Winona Ranger Station Historic District is a historic ranger station and national historic district located in Mark Twain National Forest near Winona, Shannon County, Missouri. The district encompasses four contributing buildings, associated with a ranger station constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) under the ...
Established. 1980. Governing body. U.S. Forest Service. The Rockpile Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri in Mark Twain National Forest. It takes its name from an ancient circle of granite rock, piled by some earlier man on top of the mountain. [1] The namesake rock pile most likely was an Indian cairn. [2]
Some 48,000 acres (190 km 2) in the north and northwest part of the county is now part of the Mark Twain National Forest. Several acres in the southeast part of the county are part of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways Park. Small family farms are still a major part of the landscape of the county.
U.S. Forest Service. The Hercules Glades Wilderness is a 12,314-acre (50 km 2) wilderness area in Taney County in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The United States Congress designated it a wilderness in 1976, [1] making it the oldest wilderness area in Missouri. It is one of eight wilderness areas in the Mark Twain National Forest [2] and is ...
On a serious note, timber poaching is a widespread problem, and not just in the 1.5-million-acre Mark Twain National Forest but across the Ozarks, on private as well as public land.
South of Interstate 44, Route 17 enters the Mark Twain National Forest and passes through the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood. Originally, Route 17 terminated at Mountain View. In 2021, a section of the route in Howell, Texas County, Missouri was reduced for improvements. [2]