Mississippi Business Journal » birds http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Port looking to work around hundreds of nesting least terns http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/22/port-looking-to-work-around-hundreds-of-nesting-least-terns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=port-looking-to-work-around-hundreds-of-nesting-least-terns http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/22/port-looking-to-work-around-hundreds-of-nesting-least-terns/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 17:19:40 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=57493 GULFPORT — Hundreds of least terns are nesting on the state port’s West Pier in Gulfport. Port Restoration director Joe Conn tells the Sun Herald the port is submitting a plan to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife to work around the birds. The port’s West Pier is being expanded, elevated and updated to house a [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/22/port-looking-to-work-around-hundreds-of-nesting-least-terns/feed/ 0 EPA approves MDAC’s request for corn treatment http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/19/epa-approves-mdacs-request-for-corn-treatment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=epa-approves-mdacs-request-for-corn-treatment http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/19/epa-approves-mdacs-request-for-corn-treatment/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:14:09 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=54275 JACKSON — Mississippi Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith reports the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved an emergency exemption that will provide protection to corn producers throughout the state from blackbird predation of newly planted corn. Mississippi corn growers throughout the state have suffered million dollar losses in recent years due to heavy blackbird predation, Smith [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/19/epa-approves-mdacs-request-for-corn-treatment/feed/ 0 BP oil spill funds to be used for new Coast nature center http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/16/bp-oil-spill-funds-to-be-used-for-new-coast-nature-center/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bp-oil-spill-funds-to-be-used-for-new-coast-nature-center http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/16/bp-oil-spill-funds-to-be-used-for-new-coast-nature-center/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:43:32 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=52500 MOSS POINT — A new $2 million Pascagoula River Audubon Center celebrating the environment of the Mississippi Gulf Coast is scheduled to open in early 2013. The center, one of just 43 such Audubon centers across the country, will be located within walking distance of downtown Moss Point. Audubon president David Yarnold says the center [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/16/bp-oil-spill-funds-to-be-used-for-new-coast-nature-center/feed/ 0 Early hunting seasons to be set http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/07/09/early-hunting-seasons-to-be-set/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=early-hunting-seasons-to-be-set http://msbusiness.com/blog/2009/07/09/early-hunting-seasons-to-be-set/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:40:04 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=1603 The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks will consider dates for the 2009-2010 early hunting seasons for migratory game birds July 22 at its monthly meeting, according to the MDWFP. The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. at the MDWFP office in Jackson. On June 26, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released early-season [...]

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