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Newsletter
Our newsletters are filled with seasonal information pertinent to those managing or considering a natural resource enterprise. Newsletters will be printed quarterly. To receive a hard copy, sign up for our mailing list by filling out this form.
- June 2009 (PDF, 303KB)
- Landowner Spotlight: Birdshot Lodge
- Update on the NRE Demonstration Area in Newton, MS
- Get a Head Start on Pond Weed Problems
- March 2009 (PDF, 256KB)
- National Survey of Wildlife-Associated Recreation in Missisisppi
- Enterprises, More than Just Revenue
- Fishing Ponds: To Fertilize or Not To Fertilize
- November 2008 (PDF, 716KB)
- Hunting lease values: sixteenth section lands
- Fall/Spring recreational angling: the other season
- Landowner spotlight: Tim Carpenter and Carter Farms
- July 2008 (PDF, 415KB)
- Wildlife species of critical concern
- Mississippi native plants: wild plum
- Landowner spotlight: Tim Carpenter, Eagle Lake Lodge and Outfitters
- March 2008 (PDF, 354KB)
- NRE Program assisting Alabama outfitters and guides
- NRE hosts landowner workshop in George County
- Mississippi native plants: blackberry and dewberry
- Special event liability insurance: a must for agritourism operations
- October 2007 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 407KB)
- Creating and managing old field habitats
- Tips to encourage small game species
- Agritourism: entertainment on the family farm
- Landowner spotlight: Mitchell Farms
- Mississippi native plants: strawberry bush
- July 2007 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 715KB)
- Natural Resource Enterprises Demonstration Center in Newton, MS
- Upcoming landowner workshop
- Understanding food plot mixes and combinations
- Recommendations for planting warm-season legumes/grain producing plants
- April 2007 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 475KB)
- Outdoor recreational opportunities increase property values in Mississippi
- Charleston Farms: waterfowl management demonstration area
- Waterfowl management tips
- January 2007 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 718KB)
- Landowner spotlight: Brian Spearman, Longbow Trails, Inc.
- Field borders for wildlife
- NRE Program hosts successful multi-county landowner workshop in Raymond, MS
- September 2006 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 467KB)
- Bed and breakfast businesses
- Conservation benefits offered by land trusts
- Feral and free-roaming cats, not wildlife's friend
- July 2006 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 495KB)
- Wildlife demonstrations planned for 2006
- Upland game species use of steer/heifer harvested no-till corn sites in Mississippi: benefits to wildlife and landowners
- Landowner workshop series continues to be popular
- Water conservation tips for your backyard
- April 2006 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 392KB)
- Fee hunting enterprises in Mississippi
- Landowner spotlight: Wade Henson, Cypress Lodge Outfitters
- Landowner workshop series continues
- Spring maintenance for farm ponds
- January 2006 Natural Resource Enterprises Landowner Newsletter (PDF, 558KB)
- Conservation reserve program mid-contract management offers significant wildlife habitat management opportunity
- Workshop offers landowners the opportunity to learn about natural resource enterprises
- Bird feeding in winter
- The Land Bank of North Mississippi
- Natural resource enterprises website
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Watering Tips
Watering plants may be necessary when dry conditions are present. There are several easy tips to efficient watering:
• Watering at night or in the early morning will reduce evaporation.
• Using mulch (newspaper, woodchips, pine straw, leaves) around garden beds and tree bases will help maintain soil moisture for longer periods of time.
• Well-prepared soil beds (organic matter and reduction of soil compaction) will increase
soil moisture and water flow to the roots.
• Use of efficient irrigation systems like drip and slotted pipe systems target watering to
the base of the plants unlike sprinklers.
• Collecting rainwater in a barrel from your roof can provide a free source of garden
water.
• Constructing windbreaks (fences, tree and shrub rows) reduces evaporation.
Use of one or all of these tips is relatively inexpensive and has shown to be very cost effective for property owners and beneficial to the environment. For more information on this topic visit the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s backyard habitat program website.
Mississippi State University • Mississippi State University Extension Service • MSU-ES Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Forest and Wildlife Research Center • Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
