MO-Rush+Bottoms+Conservation+Area


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Holt County
=Rush Bottoms Conservation Area= Craig, Missouri 64437 Rush Bottoms Conservation Area Website Rush Bottoms Conservation Area Map Rush Bottoms Conservation Area Brochure

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Rush Bottoms CA
Coordinates: 40.0894776, -95.3987409 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Rush Bottoms Conservation Area
East 0.25 mile from Rulo, NE on US-159, turn north on entry road which goes beneath RR bridge to parking lot. This area is mostly open land and contains a mix of cropland, idle fields, grassland, and some small tracts of forest. This area has approximately 2.5 miles of Missouri River frontage and one fishing pond.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has purchased this area as part of the Missouri River Mitigation Project. The mitigation project has been designed to enhance fish and wildlife habitat along the Missouri River. The area is managed through a cooperative effort between the Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Department of Conservation. This area is managed for a wide variety of game and non-game fish and wildlife species.

Rich bottomland soils here produce a wide variety of wetland vegetation and bottomland timber, which are supplemented by plantings of warm-season grasses. Management practices include reforestation, prescribed burning, and opportunistic wetland management. Management of this area includes the restoration of an old Missouri River chute, creating a small island. From Rush Bottoms Conservation Area Website

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