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Hickory County
=Mule Shoe Conservation Area= Macks Creek, Missouri 65786 Mule Shoe Conservation Area web site Mule Shoe Conservation Area map Mule Shoe Conservation Area brochure

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Mule Shoe CA
Coordinates: 37.9911, -93.093 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Mule Shoe Conservation Area
Mule Shoe Conservation Area is in eastern Hickory County. Visitors can reach the area by heading north on Route F off US-54, then going east on Gravel Road 96, which runs through the area.

This tract is mostly forest. Facilities/features: primitive camping and two permanent streams.

This 2,476-acre area borders the eastern bank of the Little Niangua River for over one mile. The area contains forestland, bottomland fields, and steep limestone bluffs.

Natural communities include dry and dry-mesic chert forest, dolomite glades, a remnant dolomite savanna, and bottomland forests. Approximately 400 acres are pasture fields.

This area was acquired to help protect the aquatic habitat of the Niangua darter, which is classified as state-endangered and federally-threatened species. From Mule Shoe Conservation Area web site

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