Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory
Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory

Cross Timbers Forest at Lake Texoma,

Marshall County

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Lake Texoma project office became members of the Registry in 2000. While the public land surrounding Lake Texoma is much larger, the Registry site is an important 158 acres near Woodville, Oklahoma.

This site offers an excellent example of a Cross Timbers Forest community located on the rolling upland adjoining Lake Texoma. Tree species in the forest include cedar elm, chitamwood, viburnum, and redbud. The dominant trees are post oak, Shumard's oak, and black hickory. The Cross Timbers ecoregion spans Oklahoma, from the Kansas to Texas border, but it difficult to find forest communities that have not been logged or had other major human impacts

Cross Timbers Forest at Lake Texoma

Large oak within the Cross Timbers Forest

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