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Dunklin County
=Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area= Kennett, Missouri 63857 Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area Website Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area Map Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area Brochure

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Ben Cash Mem CA
Coordinates: 36.1858966, -90.2019596 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area
Southwest of Kennett on US-412, turn west on Route A, then turn west onto County Road 516 at the MDC cantilever sign, and continue over the St. Francis River levee to the parking area. Mostly forest with some old fields. Facilities/features: boat ramp, Cash Swamp Natural Area (bottomland hardwoods, swamp), and a permanent stream (St. Francis River).

Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area is in Dunklin county, six miles west of US-412 on Route A. The Route A and US-412 junction is three miles south of Kennett. This 1,443-acre area is located in the St. Francis River floodplain and contains 1,210 acres of lowland forest, 44 acres of swamp and 195 acres of open fields.

Cash Swamp Natural Area is located on the south end of the area and includes 310 acres of high quality, remnant tupelo-cypress bottomland forest.

The Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area is one of the few vestigial bottomland hardwoods forest in the Bootheel and contains an extremely diversified floral community.

This conservation area was acquired in part through the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. From Ben Cash Memorial Conservation Area Website

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