On October 29th I attended a program on wild hog management sponsored by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Mississippi State University Extension Service. Here’s the situation: the reproductive rate of hogs is astonishing.  According to the experts, you have to kill 80% of the population annually to maintain your current numbers. For those of you who love numbers: St... read more...

During the early 1900s, the wood duck was threatened with extinction due to unregulated harvest and habitat loss. Through conservation efforts, research, and the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, the wood duck now thrives in 42 states and five Canadian provinces. Many consider the wood duck the most beautiful and colorful bird in the world. The male has a purple and green crested h... read more...

By Chris McDonald, Biologist Used with Permission Our technical staff receives many requests from hunters wanting information on how to manage deer on the property they hunt. Many of these requests come after deer season has begun, usually because hunters are not seeing or harvesting "big bucks." Many hunters want to know during the middle of the current deer season what they can do to m... read more...