Mississippi | The Conservation Fund

By the Numbers:

9,944 acres saved

More than 2,830 acres have been preserved in partnership with the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Over 1,675 acres have been protected to benefit and preserve Historic Places.

Runoff of nutrients from farmland and other sources in the Mississippi River Watershed is contributing to a hypoxic zone,...

Two hundred years ago, the “piney woods” of folk songs were a vast forest sweeping across 90 million acres...

In 1902, legendary African-American guide Holt Collier led President Theodore Roosevelt and his entourage through the canebrakes and virgin...