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prairie, prairie chickens rare, occur on 

 the watershed followed by the Wabash 

 Ry. in Macon and Adair Counties. 

 Grasses are tall red-top, Indian grass, 

 slough-grass and blunt spike grass. 



Atlanta}, and La Plata}. W. T. 

 Robinson. 



(C3 and D4.) Again, Baker and 

 Locust Creek townships in northern 

 Linn County have thousands of prairie 

 chickens due to a twenty-years close- 

 season experiment. The prairie is 

 mostly Kentucky blue grass and timothy 

 now, the original grasses (Andropogon 

 spp.) being rare. 



Brookfield}, Linn County, Mo., C. B. 

 & Q. R. R., Hannibal! to St. Joseph 

 Div. W. B. McGregor. 



Caldwell County forest and prairie. 

 (A3.) 100 to 200 acres of land including 

 a number of small tracts of original 

 forests of the usual deciduous type of the 

 region. Original prairie now rapidly 

 vanishing. Some flood plain forest 6 

 to 10 mi. southwest of Hamilton, Mo., 

 C. B. & Q. R. R. H. M. Fort. 



Bottoms and brakes of the Missouri 

 River. (C3.) Bluffs carved with lime- 

 stone canyons of "branches" running 

 6 to 10 mi. up into the prairie back from 

 the river; and among the rocks, rock 

 lizards, ant-lion pit communities, 

 snakes, quail, etc. Here occur oak, 

 sycamore, bottom willows, ash, ridge- 

 side persimmon and pawpaw. 



9 to 10 mi. southwest of Columbia, 

 Mo., on M. K. & T. R. R. A. C. Burrill. 



5. Available areas representative of the 

 hardwoods areas, or Ozarks 



Forested north slopes of the Ozarks 

 near Onandaga Cave. Altitude 1100 ft. 

 (A2.) Oak hardwoods with red cedar 

 surround this large cave which is 

 reached on the Frisco Ry. in Crawford 

 County to the depot of Bourbon, then 

 3 mi. East; but detrain at Leasburgf 

 for auto service. Onandaga Park of 

 10,000 acres has a famous Blue Spring, 

 a Bat Cave and a Cane Bottom where 

 bears abounded. A. C. Burrill. 



pHa-Ha-Tonka Park and Cave. (A3 or 

 C3.) Several thousand acres of forested 

 hill-tops with red cedar on the bluffs. 

 Mountain ravines, lakes, hills, and 

 springs, semi-natural shrubbery along 

 roadsides. Wild turkeys, deer, opossum, 

 gray and fox squirrels, gray and red 

 foxes. Ha-ha-tonka Cave in Camden 

 County is a chief show-place with 

 interesting fauna; lakes, springs, and 

 rivers including bats, crawfish and 

 cavefish. Follow the Big Niangua River 

 in Dallas County from Lebanon or 

 Marshfield on the Frisco Ry. Altitude 

 900 to 1000 ft. 



Versailles C. R. I. & P. R. R. ; go 40 



mi. south (a) to it. 



Lebanon Frisco Ry.; go 30 mi. north 

 (a) to Ha-ha-tonka||. 



Noel Tract (cave fauna and earliest 

 Indian cave-dwellers). (C3) and (C4) 

 or (D3). Several thousand acres of 

 lightly forested hills and wonderfully 

 carved limestone bluffs with earliest 

 of Indian remains in middle United 

 States, to include the lately discovered 

 and perhaps largest Missouri cavern, 

 Elk Springs Cave. Short leaf pine is 

 common among hardwoods. Various 

 spp. wood molds, cave myriapods and 

 isopods, wasps, etc,, in these small 

 caves. 



Noel, Mo. K. C. S. R. R .;(a) or (w) 

 one mi. northwest on Cowskin River. 



pSequiota Tract and Cave. (Cave now 

 preserved.) (C4 and D3.) The State 

 Fish Hatchery and a quarry with the 

 famous Sequiota Cave which is entered 

 by wading or in flat boats with flash 

 lights. The cave entrances swarm with 

 mud dauber wasp nests and colonies. 

 Close to the fish hatchery, a sizable 

 stream gradually disappears in sink- 

 holes in the curiously carved river-bed; 

 accompanying fauna and flora interest- 

 ing, as the many nests and trails of ants 

 (Cremastogaster lineolata and Campono- 

 tus spp.). Altitude 1300 ft. 



Springfield}, Mo., on Frisco and Mo. 

 P. R. R. (Auto service) 9 mi. south by 

 daily auto stage to fish hatchery, Green 

 County, a good camping spot all sum- 

 mer. A. C. Burrill. 



Moreau River tract (C3, D4) : Terminal 

 moraine remnants . Cole to Morgan 

 Counties. (C3.) (Available.) Several 

 thousand acres of second growth wood- 

 lands and remarkably carved steep 

 limestone bluffs along the Moreau 

 River will make an excellent elk, deer 

 and bird preserve, and now has an 

 occasional coyote. The hilltops and 

 river ridge tops are covered many feet 

 deep with wind-blown loess from the 

 Missouri River Valley bottoms many 

 miles away. Excellent bird protection 

 in winter and a prime migration study 

 resort. Altitude 600 to 1100 .ft. 



Still higher elevations of similar 

 formations can be studied to the west in 

 Morgan County, for although the north- 

 east part of the county is natural prairie, 

 the rest to the southwest is natural forest 

 of oak (bur and white), persimmon, paw- 

 paw, and along the streams, sycamores. 

 Skunks and, wolves are becoming numer- 

 ous. Squirrels, prairie chickens, foxes 

 and fur-bearers are numerous. Boyler's 

 Mill south of Stover, Mo. F. Dunlap 

 and H. K. Welpman. 



Jefferson City} best center, auto 



