Arkansas Natural Resources

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Arkansas Natural Resources

• Tracie Jones

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States Greatest Assets

• Five national park sites
• 2.6 million acres of national forest lands
• 13 major lakes
• Two mountain ranges
• 9,000 miles of streams and rivers

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National Forest

• Three National Forest
• Ozark (1,055,000 acres)
• St. Francis (20,946 acres)
• Ouachita (1,572,879 acres)
• Total of 2,648,825 acres

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Diamonds

• Murfreesboro, Arkansas
• Home of the only diamond mine open to the public
  in North America

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Arkansas is trying to restore the wetlands in the
state.
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Grass fields for raising cattle.
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10,000 turkeys are raised each year in Arkansas.
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Soybeans is one of the top agriculture
productions in Arkansas.
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Rice production is extremely important to
Arkansas.
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Resources

• State of Arkansas. Retrieved January 2003 from
  http//www.arkansas.gov
• United States Department of Agriculture (). NRCS
  Photo Gallery. Retrieved June 25, 2006, from
  http//photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov