Westport Island
Forest at Westport Island Natural Area
A large and undisturbed old-growth bottomland forest with sloughs and shrub swamps of the Upper Mississippi Section of the Big Rivers Natural Division. Silver maple, cottonwood, sycamore, pin oak and pecan are the dominant trees of the bottomland forest. Long, narrow sloughs wind through the forest providing habitat for wood ducks, shorebirds, herons, turtles and many fishes. Some of the sloughs have permanent water, while others dry up during the summer.
Access Information:
GPS S tip. Boat access only from MS River. Hamburg Ferry and Norton Woods Accesses nearby.
Get more information from the MDC Atlas.
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