Homochitto National Forest

U.S. National Forest in Mississippi

31°30′11″N 90°59′55″W / 31.503056°N 90.998611°W / 31.503056; -90.998611Area191,839 acres (776.34 km²)^[1]EstablishedJuly 20, 1936^[2]Governing bodyU.S. Forest ServiceWebsiteNational Forests in Mississippi

Homochitto National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in southwestern Mississippi comprising 191,839 acres (776.34 km²). In the mid-1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began reforestation of the area and developing a system of roadways and recreational areas.

Geography

In descending order of land area the forest is located in parts of:

Franklin County,
Amite County,
Wilkinson County,
Adams County,
Jefferson County,
Lincoln County,
Copiah County

Flora and fauna

The flora of the Homochitto National Forest consists of about 850 species of vascular plants.^[3]^[4] The rivers and streams of the forest are rather poor in bivalve diversity, but at least eight species of freshwater mussels are known, with perhaps as many as 11 species possible.^[5]^[6] Three species of winter stoneflies have been collected from the Homochitto National Forest,^[7] including one that was later described as a new species, Allocapnia starki.^[8]

Headquarters

The forest is headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, as are all six National Forests in Mississippi. There are local ranger district offices located in Meadville.

References

^ "Land Areas of the National Forest System" (PDF). U.S. Forest Service. January 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2012.
^ "The National Forests of the United States" (PDF). ForestHistory.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 28, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
^ Havran, J. Christopher (2004). A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the Homochitto National Forest, Mississippi (M.S. Thesis). Monroe, Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Monroe.
^ Alford, Mac (2001). "The vascular flora of Amite County, Mississippi". SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 19: 645–699. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
^ Haag, Wendell R.; Warren Jr., Melvin L. (1995). Current Distributional Information on Freshwater Mussels (Family Unionidae) in Mississippi National Forests (PDF). New Orleans, LA: USDA General Technical Report SO-119. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
^ Hartfield, Paul; Ebert, Danny (1986). "The mussels of southwest Mississippi streams". American Malacological Bulletin. 4 (1): 21–23.
^ Alford, Mac H. (1998). "New records of Allocapnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae) from Mississippi and Louisiana, with accompanying scanning electron micrographs". Entomological News. 109 (3): 183–188.
^ Kondratieff, Boris T.; Kirchner, Ralph F. (2000). "Two new Allocapnia from eastern North America (Plecoptera: Capniidae)". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 93 (6): 1267–1273. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[1267:TNAFEN]2.0.CO;2.

Protected areas of Mississippi

Federal

National Historical Parks and national monuments	Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home Natchez
National Battlefields, Military Parks and Battlefield Sites	Brices Cross Roads NBS Shiloh NMP Tupelo NB Vicksburg NMP
National Seashores	Gulf Islands
National Trails	Natchez Trace Parkway Natchez Trace Trail
National Forests	Bienville De Soto Delta Holly Springs Homochitto Tombigbee
National Wildlife Refuges	Bogue Chitto Coldwater River Dahomey Grand Bay Hillside Holt Collier Mathews Brake Mississippi Sandhill Crane Morgan Brake Panther Swamp Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee St. Catherine Creek Tallahatchie Theodore Roosevelt Yazoo
National Estuarine Research Reserves	Grand Bay
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Black Creek

State

State Parks	Buccaneer Clark Creek Natural Area Clarkco Florewood George P. Cossar Golden Memorial Grand Gulf Military Great River Road Holmes County Hugh White John W. Kyle J. P. Coleman Lake Lincoln Lake Lowndes LeFleur's Bluff Legion Leroy Percy Natchez Paul B. Johnson Percy Quin Roosevelt Shepard Tishomingo Tombigbee Trace Wall Doxey

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks

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