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St. Charles County
=Cuivre Island Conservation Area= O'Fallon, Missouri 63366 Cuivre Island Conservation Area Website Cuivre Island Conservation Area Map Cuivre Island Conservation Area Brochure

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Cuivre Island CA
Coordinates: 38.9178836, -90.6672478 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Cuivre Island Conservation Area
Cuivre Island Conservation Area is in Lincoln and St. Charles counties, near Old Monroe. Access to the area is by Dalbow Road, off MO-79. To reach Cuivre Island Conservation Area, take MO-79 north from O'Fallon to Dalbow Road, then follow Dalbow Road five miles east to the area entrance.

This is a mostly forested area with old fields. Facilities/features: boat ramp and permanent stream (Mississippi River).

The majority of the area is an island within Mississippi River navigation pool 26, between river miles 235 and 238. The area was purchased through a cooperative effort among the Conservation Department, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and The Nature Conservancy. Most of the 1,461-acre area was acquired to provide wildlife habitat as mitigation lands for the construction of Melvin Price Lock and Dam (26).

Cuivre Island Conservation Area consists of three separate tracts of land. Cuivre Island, at 1,240 acres, is mostly timbered, with 80 acres of old field, 40 acres of reforestation and 60 acres of sloughs. The island can be reached by boat from the mainland tract during normal river conditions.

The 100-acre mainland tract was mostly open cropland when the Conservation Department purchased the property. Most of that open land has been planted with a variety of bottomland hardwood trees as part of a bottomland reforestation effort. Experimental methods were used to grow these trees at a local nursery and to establish this new forest on the area. These experimental methods seem to work well. They will likely be used at a number of other reforestation sites around the state.

Turkey Island is 120 acres of mostly forested land and is a recent addition to the area. From Cuivre Island Conservation Area Website

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