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Barton Sommer Woodland

Nature Preserve Area

5

County

Mason

Location And Access

Two miles northwest of Middletown along Salt Creek.

Description

This nature preserve contains wet-mesic floodplain forest of the Illinois River Section of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River Bottomlands Natural Divisions.

Ownership

Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Dedicated

February 1995

Size

52.5 acres

Topographic Quad

New Holland

Topo Map

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For Further Information

Site Superintendent, Sand Ridge State Forest, Box 111, Forest City IL 61532 (309/597-2212) or Illinois Department of Natural Resources, District Natural Heritage Biologist, 700 S. 10th Street, Havana, Illinois 62644 (309-543-3262).