Homochitto National Forest Explained
Homochitto National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in southwestern Mississippi comprising 191839acres. 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:
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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Land Areas of the National Forest System . U.S. Forest Service . January 2012 . June 24, 2012.
- Web site: The National Forests of the United States . ForestHistory.org . July 20, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121028014355/http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Places/National%20Forests%20of%20the%20U.S.pdf . October 28, 2012 .
- Book: Havran. J. Christopher. A Preliminary Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the Homochitto National Forest, Mississippi (M.S. Thesis). 2004. University of Louisiana at Monroe. Monroe, Louisiana.
- Alford. Mac. The vascular flora of Amite County, Mississippi. SIDA, Contributions to Botany. 2001. 19. 645–699. 17 March 2018.
- Book: Haag. Wendell R.. Warren Jr.. Melvin L.. Current Distributional Information on Freshwater Mussels (Family Unionidae) in Mississippi National Forests. 1995. USDA General Technical Report SO-119. New Orleans, LA. 21 March 2018.
- Hartfield. Paul. Ebert. Danny. The mussels of southwest Mississippi streams. American Malacological Bulletin. 1986. 4. 1. 21–23.
- Alford. Mac H.. New records of Allocapnia (Plecoptera: Capniidae) from Mississippi and Louisiana, with accompanying scanning electron micrographs. Entomological News. 1998. 109. 3. 183–188.
- Kondratieff. Boris T.. Kirchner. Ralph F.. Two new Allocapnia from eastern North America (Plecoptera: Capniidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 2000. 93. 6. 1267–1273. 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[1267:TNAFEN]2.0.CO;2. free.
