Natural History of the Mid-South January 13, 2011

The first floor of the museum describes the natural history of the Mid-south. This area, within a 200 mile area radius of Memphis, encompasses several major environments including the channels and oxbow lakes of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, their associated floodplains; the sand hills of western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, and the nearby highlands of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains in Arkansas and the Highland Rim of Central Tennessee.