The Pacific Palisades Conservation Area is a

conservation Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and managem ...

area located along the

Meramec River The Meramec River (), sometimes spelled Maramec River, is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Location" while wandering Blanc, Caldwell, and Hawk. "Executive Summary" fr ...

where

St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...

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, and

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counties meet in

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, USA. It is named for the rock and sand formations along this portion of the Meramec River. The

LaBarque Creek Conservation Area LaBarque Creek Conservation Area (LCCA) consists of in northwestern Jefferson County, Missouri. It is south of Pacific and southwest of Eureka. The LCCA is part of the Henry Shaw Ozark Corridor. The Young Conservation Area is about to the east ...

is about to the south. Pacific Palisades Conservation Area is a tract between St. Louis and Jefferson counties. The area is divided into a wildlife area in Jefferson County and an access area, in St. Louis County. River access is only available from the St. Louis county section. Hunting is allowed only in the Jefferson County section. The access area is located in St. Louis county west of

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on Franklin Road. The access area hosts a

access and is on the north shore of the Meramec River. The wildlife area is in Jefferson County, off English Road, south of

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. The wildlife area has a diverse ecology with two lakes, of forest, of prairie, of field, of cropland, a once-prominent ramp, and large bluffs along south bank of the Meramec River. The area is good for hunting

deer Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the re ...

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, and

dove Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...

s. Herons and other waterfowl typically nest around the lakes. Large number of mussel beds are also located along this section of the Meramec River. Game fish species include bluegill,

largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, bu ...

, and crappie.

References

{{Protected Areas of Missouri Conservation Areas of Missouri Protected areas of St. Louis County, Missouri Protected areas of Jefferson County, Missouri Protected areas of Franklin County, Missouri