MO-Bristow+Conservation+Area


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Vernon County
=Bristow Conservation Area= Nevada, Missouri 64772 Bristow Conservation Area web site Bristow Conservation Area map Bristow Conservation Area brochure

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Bristow CA
Coordinates: 37.7955, -94.2569 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Bristow Conservation Area
In Nevada, take I-49 and US-71 exit 101, then Route K east and south and then east again for 6.50 miles, then 2100 Road south 0.50 mile.

This area contains cropland, grassland, with prairie, and some forest and wetlands.

Bristow Conservation Area was once part of a vast prairie ecosystem that covered more than one-quarter of Missouri. The majority of the native prairie here was plowed or converted in the past to make way for other land uses. Bristow still has three native prairie remnants in the northwest portion of the area.

Managment practices include prescribed burning, haying, and other tools to simulate historic disturbances that maintain healthy grasslands and limit the negative impacts of invasive plants, including trees, which were historically uncommon here.

Management priorities include providing nesting and brood-rearing habitat for bobwhite quail and grassland birds along with providing early successional habitat through cropping. From Bristow Conservation Area web site

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