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The nature area has a mix of hardwood and pine forest with large beech and magnolia trees. The park includes the world record Mexican plum and bigleaf snowbell and the state of Mississippi record hophornbeam. Several uncommon trees that can be seen are Southern sugar maple, serviceberry, umbrella tree, pyramid magnolia, chinquapin oak and witch ...
Three small parts of the Delta National Forest contain rare pristine tracts of bottomland hardwood trees. Harrell Prairie Hill: 1976: Scott: federal The most representative remnants of the Jackson Prairie. Part of Bienville National Forest.
The state park was established in a large expanse of drained cropland in 1938 to protect some of the largest trees in the state and in the nation. [5] The park was declared a National Natural Landmark in May 1986, recognized as a rare, untouched wet-mesic bottomland hardwood forest in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain portion of the Gulf Coastal ...
The HSNF is located in northern Mississippi and is divided into two major sections. The largest section lies to the southeast of the city of Holly Springs and straddles U.S. Highway 78 . The second section 20,776 acres (84.08 km 2 ), sits about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the main section, in Yalobusha County , between Coffeeville and Oakland ...
Refuge staff manage the water level in the brake to promote moist-soil plants and to sustain oak trees around the edges for migratory birds. Other habitat types include 422 acres (1.71 km 2) of bottomland hardwoods and 186 acres (0.75 km 2) of young hardwood plantations. Hunting and fishing are the most popular programs on the refuge.
Effigy Mounds National Monument, near Harpers Ferry, Iowa, is a sacred space for the Indigenous peoples who lived in the Mississippi River valley.More than 200 mounds are in the park, formed ...
This is a list of Mississippi state parks. As of 2024, the state park system of the U.S. state of Mississippi comprises 24 state parks and one natural area. [1]
A magnolia tree on the west side of Jackson City Hall in Jackson, Miss., seen Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, is just one of a number trees in metro Jackson lost to the drought conditions last summer.