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The Fair Use rationale for area descriptions from the Missouri Department of Conservation is given at Talk:List of Missouri conservation areas.

As originally written by Kbh3rd, this list cited numerous pages on the mdc4.mdc.mo.gov server. The Missouri Department of Conservation has since redone their website and no longer uses that designation, which rendered all of the citations as dead links. Most of the Conservation Areas have pdf information brochures, the others such as Access Areas and Community Lakes usually have a brief information page. Some like the Carpenter Memorial Conservation Area no longer have an information page, just a map (which I hope is a temporary situation). I have replaced a few of the mdc4.mdc.mo.gov citations with the current urls, and in the case of the Carpenter Memorial Conservation Area with an archive link, but much more work needs to be done on these citations. It also might be nice to link to a third-party source or two. -- Bejnar ( talk) 23:03, 13 February 2017 (UTC) reply