Feb
23
Video: Prescribed Burning
MDWFP Private Lands Program Coordinator John Gruchy explains the importance of prescribed burning.
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19
Wild Turkey Habitat Management
Although turkeys can be found in a variety of different habitat types, proper habitat management is essential for maintaining ideal conditions for the birds. Turkey habitat management can involve a variety of practices, including prescribed burning, timber harvest, creation of wildlife openings, food plots, and much more.
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16
Reinvigorating a Culture
Prescribed burning helps maintain plant communities that make up the forests and grasslands of Mississippi.
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9
Avoiding Trapping Mistakes
Trappers are responsible for their own actions. In addition, all trappers will be judged - to a greater or lesser extent - by the actions of each individual. Each trapper is therefore accountable not only to himself but to all other trappers. Some of the most common mistakes made by beginning trappers are listed below so that you will be aware of them and will avoid making them:
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1
Introduction to Habitat Mgmt
It is hard these days to read any article about hunting and not read something about the importance of habitat management. Wildlife biologists and managers frequently stress habitat management, but what is habitat?
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25
Food for Thought
The first step in learning more about what game animals commonly eat is to establish a working knowledge of natural foods such as wildflowers, grasses, trees, shrubs, vines, and other food items.
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28
Hardwood Forests
The significance of hardwoods to wild turkeys is many and varied. Their most evident appeal is the food resources they provide.
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26
How to Set a Raccoon Trap
In this video, we give you a step by step guide to setting a dog-proof trap for raccoons and possums.
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21
Video: Supplemental Planting
On this past episode of Mississippi Outdoors TV, we met with MDWFP biologists and Mississippi State University’s Dr. Bronson Strickland to learn about food plots and things hunters and landowners should consider before, during, and after planting to make their food plots a success.
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20
Wild Hogs, the Ultimate Predator
So, what makes this predator such a threat to its surrounding habitat? Wild hogs are considered opportunistic omnivores, which basically means they can (and do) eat almost anything they happen across.
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19
Video: Predator Trapping Basics
In this segment from Mississippi Outdoors TV, we road along with trappers from the Mississippi Trappers Association to learn their tricks behind successful trapping.
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16
Predator and Prey
Is the absence of predators always a good thing? Predator/prey relationships are extremely complex and often misunderstood.
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15
Best Traps for Animal Welfare
BMPs provide the information that will help make a trap and trapper function together in a manner that is safe, humane, effective, and selective.
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14
Old Field Management
Instead of watching deer browse the edge of a field, and instead of waiting for deer to come to a field from a distant thicket in the woods, why not create a field of cover and food, naturally?
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13
How to Set a Foothold Trap
This video provides an in-depth tutorial on setting a foothold trap for catching foxes, coyotes, and bobcats.
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5
MS Outdoors Radio: Wild Hogs
Nuisance Species Program Biologist Anthony Ballard join Mississippi Outdoors Radio to discuss the threat of wild hogs.
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