Morgan Hill Overlook Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/10/2008
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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NO NIGHT CACHING.

THE REFUGE HOURS ARE 30 MINUTES BEFORE SUNRISE UNTIL 30 MINUTES AFTER SUNSET.

Take a trip through reconstructed Black Prairie Habitat on your way to the Morgan Hill Overlook. Parking is available.

Morgan Hill Overlook provides perhaps one of the best vistas on the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. From the overlook platform, visitors will be greeted by a panoramic view of 600-acre Loakfoma Lake. Winter guests at the refuge delight in the antics of the bald eagles which find this area favorable. The platform is handicap accessible and is accessed via an interpretative trail which winds through the Alabama Black Belt Prairie Restoration Project on the refuge. This site is open year-round, daylight hours only

The Black Belt is a subdivision of the East Gulf Coastal Plain physiogeographic province. It forms a cresentic region extending from McNary County in extreme southern Tennessee, south through east-central Mississippi and east to Russell County, Alabama near the Georgia state line. The region is approximately 310 miles long and up to 25 miles wide, but narrowing at its northern and eastern extremes. The entire region is underlain by Selma Chalk formed from Upper Cretaceous marine deposits. Depending on the exact consistency of the parent material, the chalk weathers into a variety of soil types which supports a mosaic of habitats ranging from prairie to forest. Areas of prairie are typically on well drained, slowly permeable, alkaline soils, whereas the oak-hickory forest of the Black Belt are associated with strongly acidic soils.


Morgan Hill Black Prairie

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