Grants Fuel Conservation Progress in Mississippi

Federal and state grant funding play a critical role in how The Nature Conservancy accomplishes its conservation mission in Mississippi. From the hills of northeast Mississippi to the waters of the Mississippi Sound, these important sources fund conservation work in all of our program areas and play a vital role in how the Conservancy operates. These are just a few of the projects grants have helped fund over the previous year:

• Inventory, monitoring, research, and management planning for threatened and endangered species on Camp Shelby.
• Planning and outreach to benefit water quality and endangered aquatic species on the Buttahatchee River in northeast Mississippi.
• Restoration of oyster reef habitat in coastal waters.
• Application of prescribed fire on Camp Shelby.
• Restoration of coastal wet pine savanna.
• Planning and outreach to benefit water quality and improve aquatic habitats on the lower Pearl River.
• Establishment of the Coastal Mississippi Fire Management Cooperative and training of regional member staff in application of prescribed fire.
• Assessment of watersheds in the Mississippi Delta to determine conservation priorities.
• Purchase of environmentally sensitive lands along the coast for the state’s Coastal Preserve Program.
• A joint state effort with the Louisiana Chapter to conduct prescribed fire and stewardship activities in coastal Mississippi and Louisiana through the Central Gulf Co-operative (CGC) Team.

For more information on Conservation in Mississippi, please contact Lisa Yager, Director of Conservation. 

The Nature Conservancy
Mississippi Field Office
405 Briarwood Drive, Suite 101
Jackson, MS 39206
(601) 709-4756