Driving DirectionsFrom West Plains, take Highway 17 south about 6 miles, then County Road 9100 west to County Road 8110 and go south 0.33 mile to the access. HighlightsThis area contains prairie and forest. Facilities/features: Tingler Lake (three acres) and permanent stream. About This AreaOne-half-mile of the South Fork of Spring River meanders through the east side of this 240-acre area. Approximately two-thirds of the area is open, and about 65 acres are classified as woodland.The Conservation Department acquired the property for Tingler Prairie Conservation Area in 1987-88, following its purchase from the Mott Davis family by the Nature Conservancy. The area was purchased to preserve a 10-acre wet mesic prairie natural community, a shallow marsh and a five acre sinkhole pond (Tingler Lake) with its associated plant community, including the state endangered waterleaf. The wet mesic prairie is the site of two varieties of the state endangered green orchid. The shallow marsh is also an unusual plant community for the region. Other unique plants found here inlcude Hydrolia ovata and Habenaria flava.Much of the open land was planted to fescue before the Nature Conservancy purchased the tract. Present management techniques include converting the fescue pasture to warm-season grasses and controlled burning of the existing prairie plant communities to maintain desirable native plant communities.Area facilities are limited to one parking lot and three maintained trails; the Woodland, the Wetland, and the Prairie trails. The nature trail is not disabled-accessible.