As a landowner or leaseholder, you play a critical role in the future of Mississippi's wildlife resources. The Private Lands Program has a variety of services and can help you meet your wildlife management goals, and potentially save you time and money. Our qualified Wildlife Biologists offer free on-site evaluations and recommendations for a variety of wildlife management needs. Private Lands Wildlife Biologists are trained to evaluate properties and work with landowners and leaseholders to help meet their wildlife management goals.
Fire on the Forty is a popular program administered by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and funded through a variety of federal, state, and private partnerships. Prescribed burning is one of the most valuable practices available to manage native plant communities and thus the wildlife populations that inhabit fields and upland forests throughout much of the South. Through prescribed burning, fires are applied to the land in a deliberate and controlled manner to promote germination of beneficial forbs and grasses, reduce coverage of less desirable trees and shrubs, and decrease potential for destructive wildfires by reducing fuel loads. Although prescribed fire is a very important tool for forest and wildlife management, many private landowners are reluctant to use fire due to cost and liability concerns associated with burning. The goal of the Fire on the Forty campaign is to promote the use of prescribed fire on privately owned fields and upland forests through outreach to educate landowners about the proper application of prescribed fire through hands-on workshops and by cost-sharing with private landowners to apply prescribed fire. The application period for the cost-share poriton of Fire on the Forty typically opens in mid-summer and closes in early fall (~September 30).
For information on pond managment, refer to our Fisheries Bureau.
Contact Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks - Private Lands
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Contact Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks - Private Lands
Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks
Private Lands Habitat Management Technical Guidance
1505 Eastover Drive
Jackson, MS 39211
Phone: 601-432-2199
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