MO-Sunklands+Conservation+Area


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Shannon County
=Sunklands Conservation Area= Eminence, Missouri 65466 Sunklands Conservation Area Website Sunklands Conservation Area Map

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Sunklands CA
Coordinates: 37.2925597, -91.5044403 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Sunklands Conservation Area
Sunklands Conservation Area is eight miles north of MO-17 on Route K, then one mile down Route KB. Watch for an area sign at the junction of Route KB and MDC Trail 360. The area can also be accessed by driving north of Eminence on MO-19, then one mile west on County Road 19-324. Watch for the area sign. This is a predominantly forest area with savanna and glades. Facilities/features: Sunklands Natural Area, numerous small streams, and permanent stream (Current River).

Few regions today preserve the wild and natural beauty of the Ozarks as well as Sunklands. Sunklands Conservation Area combined the former Sunklands-Burr Oak Basin Natural Area and Skunk Pond, Hartshorn, and Shannondale conservation areas with Kerr-McGee land.

Sunklands is valuable for its array of native plant and animal species. The area is the only known habitat in Missouri for monkshood, a showy purple wildflower.

Several upland ponds or sinkholes contain water and form a marshy area. The wetlands are rare and important homes to salamanders and other amphibians that require a fish-free habitat. From Sunklands Conservation Area Website

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