Mile 144.0 - 144 - 140.5 RBD Harlow Island Division Middle Miss NWR

John Ruskey

20 Apr 2026

144 - 140.5 RBD Harlow Island Division Middle Miss NWR

In high water paddlers could dive into the woods at the top end of Harlow Island and bushwhack their way through to the bottom, where it re-enters the Mississippi just above the Truman Access Boat Ramp. Nearly 800 acres of this 1,255-acre tract was cropland protected by a private levee that was breached during the 1993 flood. The levee breaks have been left un-repaired, allowing the river into its floodplain during high-water periods. The former cropland has naturally returned to a forest of young silver maple, cottonwood and willow, wth poison ivy, dewberry, mulberry and piney mint n the understory. The remaining land is mostly bottomland forest, with a small side channel and mile-long slough.

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