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Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 22, 2021

A new effort to create a Conservation Trust in Mississippi could become reality

A group of Mississippi and national conservation groups including Wildlife Mississippi, Ducks Unlimited, the Nature Conservancy, Delta Council / Delta Wildlife, Coastal Conservation Association and the Foundation for MDWFP are banding together to promote a program to create a conservation trust using a sales tax diversion from the existing sales of sporting goods. The bill…
Opinion  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
February 15, 2021

State parks could see improvements with recent legislation

This year, lawmakers are taking on one area of the state that is often neglected, Mississippi’s state parks. Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann has made the improvement of the state’s parks and wildlife areas a priority of his for the 2021 Legislative session. He estimated that restoring these areas will be a roughly $147 million investment.…