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Sand Ponds

Sand Ponds

A mesic upland sand forest and a wet and wet-mesic bottomland forest of the Lowlands Section of the Mississippi Lowlands Natural Division. Sand Ponds is also a habitat for pondberry, a federally endangered species, as well as other rare species such as corkwood and the western mud snake. The area also features small sand dunes associated with shallow depressions.

Access Information: 

GPS parking lot.

General Information
Designation Date: 
03/13/1987
Acreage: 
68
Owner: 
MDC
County: 
Ripley

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