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The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP), formerly known as the Mississippi Game & Fish Commission, is an agency of the government of the U.S. state of Mississippi responsible for programs protecting Mississippi fish and wildlife resources and their habitats, as well as administering all state parks; it has its headquarters in Jackson.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a 240,000-acre (970 km 2 ), [2] 261-mile long (420 km) National Wildlife Refuge located in and along the Upper Mississippi River. It runs from Wabasha, Minnesota in the north to Rock Island, Illinois in the south. ( United States Fish and Wildlife Service)
Gannett. Brian Broom, Mississippi Clarion Ledger. July 29, 2024 at 5:37 AM. In its July meeting, the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks had a different look. District 2 Commissioner Scott ...
Places final decisions on Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks regulations in the hands of the commissioners. Limits commissioners to no more than two consecutive 5-year terms.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is the longest contiguous river refuge in the continental U.S., spanning 261 river miles from Wabasha, Minnesota to Rock Island, Illinois.
The largest of them, the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, is over 420 kilometers (260 mi) long, reaching from the Alma, Wisconsin area down to Rock Island, Illinois. The refuge consists of blufflands, marshes, bottomland forest, islands, channels, backwater lakes and sloughs. [9] [10] It is part of the Mississippi Flyway.
According to Dustin Rodgers, Northeast Mississippi District biologist with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, the lake was closed in 2021 as a way of hitting the reset ...
The refuge partners with nearby Mississippi State University in an extensive research program with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Department of Forestry. Originally named the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, the refuge was renamed for Sam D. Hamilton, a former director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, in February 2012.