Barton-Sommer's Woodland

Nature Preserve

Mason County

Location and Access:

Two miles northwest of Middletown along Salt Creek.

Description:

This nature preserve contains wet-mesic floodplain forest of the Illinois River Section of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois River Bottomlands Natural Divisions.

Ownership: Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Dedication: February 1995

Size: 52.5 acres

Topo Map: New Holland and Middletown 7.5

For Further Information Contact: Site Superintendent, Sand Ridge State Forest, Box 111, Forest City IL 61532 (309/597-2212) or Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Biologist, Sangchris Lake State Park, 9898 Cascade Road, Rochester IL 62563 (217/498-8534).

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