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1000 Front Street
Oxford, MS 38655
662-236-6550
Holly Springs National Forest is a 147,000-acre mix of public and private land. Located in northern central Mississippi, it is only an hour's drive south of Memphis, Tennessee, and attracts many of its citizens escaping for the weekend. The park's 50 or so lakes (dug by the Soil Conservation Service) were originally intended for flood prevention and erosion control, but are today also used for warm-water fishing, boating, swimming, and more.As with Mississippi's other six forests, the lands of Holly Springs National Forest were once used by the native populations. As the first European settlers arrived, they cleared the land of its old growth forests to make room for farming. By the 1930s, when the Forest Service took responsibility for managing and rehabilitating the land, the earth had been badly scarred. These same grounds are now well covered by pines, oaks, and dogwood trees. Wildflowers, when in season, provide vivid flashes of color. Stocked game abounds and mingles with the migratory waterfowl.
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