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Pike County
=Ted Shanks Conservation Area= Ashburn, Missouri 63433 Ted Shanks Conservation Area Web Site Ted Shanks Conservation Area Map Ted Shanks Conservation Area Brochure

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Ted Shanks CA
Coordinates: 39.5429, -91.1650694 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Ted Shanks Conservation Area
Ted Shanks Conservation Area (4,025 acres). Stretching nearly seven miles along the Mississippi River, this area provides extensive marshlands and bottomland forests for many types of birds in all seasons. The forests provide nesting habitat for wood ducks and prothonotary warblers. Rails and bitterns may be found in the pools, and egrets and waterfowl are plentiful in spring and fall. Travel 19 miles south of Hannibal on MO-79, then one mile east on TT. From Missouri Department of Conservation "Best Missouri Birding Areas"

About Ted Shanks Conservation Area
This area contains about 4,000 acres of flooded wetlands. Facilities/features: lake boat ramp, stream boat ramp, waterfowl blinds, and two natural areas (Burr-Reed Slough and Oval Lake). There are also more than 500 acres of fishable water, including Horseshoe Lake (70 acres), Salt River, and the Mississippi River.

This 6,705-acre area contains bottomland hardwood timber, open marsh, mixed shrub/scrub/emergent wetlands, row crop, oxbow lakes and sloughs, old fields, and upland woods. The area consists of 3,827 acres of MDC lands and 2,878 acres of lands managed under a cooperative agreement between the Conservation Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Pittman-Robertson funds from the federal excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition were used for 75% of the purchase cost of the original area. The area was acquired in 1970 to 1971.

Ted Shanks Conservation Area borders 8.75 miles of Mississippi River frontage, 4.75 miles of the Salt River and 2.25 miles of river bluffs.

Zebulon Pike charted the mouth of the Salt River in 1805. The area was a hunting and battle ground for Sac and Fox Indians from the north and the Osages from the south. The land was granted to Saucier in 1799 and in turn to his son-in-law's brother, Auguste Chouteau (one of the founders of St. Louis), then to Neree Valle (associated with the founding of Ste. Genevieve).

The area contains 35 miles of levees, two pump stations, nine miles of water canals and 45 water control structures. The area is divided into 19 management units. From Ted Shanks Conservation Area Web Site

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