NFWF Grant Profile

Protect 375 acres of bottomland hardwoods with working forest conservation easements and enhance an additional 1,000 acres of existing bottomland hardwood forests to improve wildlife habitat and serve as demonstration sites for landowners and foresters. Project will provide an inventory of more than 30,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest established through the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS') Wetland Reserve Program in Mississippi, providing landowners, land managers and NRCS with information needed to guide management treatments that enhance wildlife habitat at a landscape scale.