Caddo Lake wildlife refuge's version of Stonehenge

Yes, it looks like No. 4 escaped.

After a prescribed February burn, the old TNT plant at Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge took on an eerie atmosphere. The crunch of the blackened ground was the only sound as we walked around the abandoned facilities.

It looks like Caddo Lake's Stonehenge.

The refuge was formerly the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant built in 1942 with backing from Lyndon Baines Johnson, a young congressman who would be president 1963-69.

In 1998, about 1,400 acres of the site became part of the area designated a wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention. In 2,000 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the site to the National Wildlife Refuge system to preserve the bottom land hardwood forest ecosystem for a migratory and resident wildlife species.

Admission to the refuge is free. There is a driving loop and some spinoff trails with picnic tables and bird blinds. The old TNT facilities are just one of the stops.

Production area

Info sign at the site

The black form looks like phoenix rising or perhaps a sentinel dragon or just a tree burned to a delicate crisp.

Building remnants