The Oxbow Group, LLC, owned by Eddie Briggs, contains approximately 207 acres. It is located within the Big Black River Drainage Basin and bordered to the north by Bear Creek, a principal tributary of the Big Black River. Bear Creek provides a substantial portion of the stormwater drainage from the central and northern parts of […]
Ray Mabus
Ray Mabus of Ackerman donated a conservation easement on land in Choctaw County in the east-central portion of Mississippi. The easement donated by Mabus is within the Sand Creek drainage basin, a tributary of the Noxubee River. It is adjacent to the Yockanookany River drainage basin, which is a tributary of the Pearl River. This […]
Charles/Margaret Pickering
This property is owned by Charles W. Pickering, Sr., and his wife, Margaret Ann Pickering. It is approximately 390 acres and contains three primary habitat types. They are loblolly pine plantations, mixed bottomland hardwood forestland, and food plots/wildlife openings. Approximately 227 acres of the Pickering property are loblolly pine plantations. Fish ponds have been drained […]
Tara Wildlife
Willow Point South, part of the Tara Wildlife easement, is approximately 6,488 acres within the Mississippi River alluvial floodplain. The Mississippi River floods part of the property annually. Most of the property lies on the unprotected side (batture) of the mainline Mississippi River levee system. Tara Wildlife’s mission is to manage its natural resources in […]
Wetlands Solution Mitigation Bank
The Wetlands Solutions Mitigation Bank in George County was developed to provide mitigation for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permits for unavoidable impacts to wetlands. The purchase of the George County site for habitat restoration, enhancement, and preservation of bottomland hardwoods and wetlands, prevented it from being broken up and sold into smaller parcels for […]
Wrenwoode Natural Area
In 1945, the Presbytery of Mississippi purchased 177 acres for a summer camp and conference center. This land is about 11 miles east of Okolona and 4 miles west of Amory. The Presbytery constructed a lake and made other improvements. In 2000, the Presbytery of Mississippi donated the property to the Wrenwoode Trust and a […]