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on a late-summer day until you see them: thick patches of neck-high sunflowers soaking in the rays, merely a short walk from the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Here, at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area in North St. Louis County, visitors flock to snap selfies in these Instagrammable fields of sunflowers, watch bald eagles, or hunt ducks and doves, depending on the season. At one