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Current River Valley

Views to the horizon are rare in the Missouri Ozarks. Here along the Current River valley in the Ozark National Scenic Riverway one can sense the vast, rugged beauty of the eastern Ozark plateau. Short-leaf pines dot a landscape dominated by scarlet, black, post and white oak. -- Jim Rathert

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June 1996 - Volume 57, Issue 6

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