Species Conservation

MMNS has initiated a program in south Mississippi to address conservation and monitoring needs identified in Mississippi's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS).  Mississippi's CWCS is a blueprint aimed at conserving wild species and their habitats. 

Contact Species Conservation Manager

Current and Future Work 

• Coordination of Mississippi Amphibian Monitoring Program
• Longleaf restoration on Mars Wildlife Management Area 

• Coordination of efforts to restore yellow blotched map turtle nesting sandbars on Pascagoula river
• Participation in monitoring efforts for swallow tail kite, plovers, gopher frog, gopher tortoise
• Participation on Mississippi Prescribed Fire Council
• Coordination with state and federal agencies on issues relating to species of greatest conservation need and their habitats
• Development of recovery plans for the following individual species of greatest conservation need and their habitats:
• • Dry longleaf pine forests/mesic longleaf pine savannahs/forests
  • • Mississippi gopher frog
    • Red cockaded woodpecker
    • Northern bobwhite
    • Black pine snake
    • Gopher tortoise
  • Bottomland hardwood forests
  • • Swallow tail kite
    • Swainson's warbler
    • Black bear/Louisiana black bear
    • Rafinesque's big eared bat
    • Ivory billed woodpecker
  • Pascagoula drainage
  • • Bald eagle
    • Swallow tail kite
    • Migrant songbirds
    • Yellow blotched and Pascagoula map turtle