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January - February 2020 Newsletter

JACKSON—360 conservationists including farmers, ranchers, cattlemen, conservation dignitaries, leaders, and employees registered to attend the MACD…

December 2019 Newsletter

MSWCC staffers are working at the pace of Santa’s elves again this year to ensure a terrific MACD 75th Annual Meeting. The deadline for early bird…

November 2019 Newsletter

FRANKFORT, KY — MSWCC Natural Resource Specialists Lance Middleton and Robin Tisdale participated in the Commissioner’s tour on Oct 16-19, 2019,…

October 2019 Newsletter

GATLINBURG, TN — On August 12, 2019, at the Park Vista Hotel in Gatlinburg, Russell Gray Houston of Holly Springs, MS, was inducted into the National…

September 2019 Newsletter

BYHALIA, MS – Early in the morning of Aug. 21, 2019, MSWCC Deputy Administrator Brad Shedd, Environmental Administrator Lee Smith and Natural…

August 2019 Newsletter

GATLINBURG, TN — Commission staff members, MACD board members, county commissioners and clerks headed to the Smoky Mountains for the NACD Southeast…

July 2019 Newsletter

STARKVILLE — MSWCC staffers, conserva- tionists, district and agency representatives traveled to Starkville for the 2019 MCDEA Conference, which was…

June 2019 Newsletter

STONEVILLE, MS — Matthew Lohr, the 16th Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, or NRCS, was the keynote speaker at the Delta F.A.R.M…

May 2019 Newsletter

RAYMOND, MS — For the 11th time in the past 12 years, Oxford High School Team A placed first overall in the State Envirothon Competition, held on…

April 2019 Newsletter

JACKSON – The top five teams in statewide area Envirothon competitions and the top FFA teams qualified on March 21, 2019, to continue to the State…