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Southeast Arkansas is generally characterized as the area east of Little Rock and south of Interstate 40. The land is adjacent to the Mississippi River and generally flat, fertile, swampy lands sometimes called the Arkansas delta. This region is sparsely populated, with an economy primarily driven by agriculture.
The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission (ANHC), a division of the Department of Arkansas Heritage added the property in 1988. [25] Along with the Presson-Oglesby Preserve (The Nature Conservancy, 155 acres), and the Cherokee Prairie (ANHC) are three contiguous tracts of protected prairie land. [26] Hall Creek Barrens Natural Area WMA [27 ...
Overflow National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a 13,973 acre (56.55 km 2) national wildlife refuge in Ashley County, Arkansas. Overflow NWR is one of three refuges forming an administrative complex, which also includes Felsenthal NWR and Pond Creek NWR to the west.
The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a 76,000 acre (307.56 km 2) national wildlife refuge located in south-central Arkansas in Ashley, Bradley, and Union counties. Felsenthal NWR is one of three refuges forming an administrative complex, which also includes Pond Creek NWR to the northwest and Overflow NWR to the east.
Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is a 7,055 acre (28.6 km 2) [1] wildlife refuge located 5 miles south-east of Dardanelle, Arkansas. The Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge is bounded on one side by the Arkansas River and on its other sides by an oxbow lake that was formerly the main channel of the Arkansas.
Bayou Meto meanders 150 miles (240 kilometers) southeast, feeding into the Arkansas River a few miles southwest of Gillett, in Arkansas County, Arkansas. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Bayou Meto is a habitat for a wide variety of fish, waterfowl, mammals and reptiles.
Subdividing the Eastern Temperate Forests, Arkansas is split among three Level II ecoregions: the Southeastern Plains, Ozark, Ouachita, Appalachian Forests, and the Mississippi Alluvial and Southeast USA Coastal Plains. Level III subdivides the continent into 182 ecoregions; of these, seven lay partly within Arkansas's borders.
Pine forest near Lake Winona (Arkansas); part of Ouachita National Forest. Mammoth Spring: 1972: Fulton: State The largest first magnitude spring in Arkansas, it is connected underground to the Grand Gulf State Park in Missouri. Roaring Branch Research Natural Area