0.2.1 The ecological neighbourhood
In the west we can see the river bottoms in the distance, and a nice thick forest just across the highway.
Coming from the north, toward Jeff City
It loos like there's a hill there, but in fact it's just taller trees.
Coming from the south, headed north toward Columbia
There's a good sized golf course to the south, and as we get closer to the property we can see the golf course's expensive housing development that borders the property to the south.
Terrain features of the general area. Missouri river is the major feature. This shows most of the area as forested, though there are a great many small open fields scattered throughout, as well as houses and smaller towns.
Topographical setting is a ridge top around 800 feet above sea level, with valleys draining down to around 600 feet, the level of the Missouri River Bottoms.
Directions to the place
Aerial view from the west shows the forest as a higher point than around it, but that's the tree height doing it. Occaisional golf balls show up in the woods, though from the layout of the golf course, must be pretty wild shots. In any case, lots of chunks of woodland to the west of the property, going downhill toward the Mirssouri river bottoms.
The visualization created by google earth is helpful, but does distort details. Easy to see that the woods on the place cotinue to the north and west into a fairly extensive tree covered area.
Close to the center of the country, population wise. A bit to the east of center geographically.
