The Natural Resource Enterprises Program funds research that will benefit landowners and natural resource enterprises in Mississippi. Below is a brief listing of some of the research conducted in 2002-2004.
Grazing conservation tillage corn with steers in an agroforestry environment: Advantages for land owners, wildlife and timber producers.
Investigators: Michael Boyd, Animal and Dairy Sciences; Glover Triplett, Plant and Soil Sciences; David Lang, Plant and Soil Sciences; Jeanne Jones, Wildlife and Fisheries; Deborah Gaddis, Extension Service; Philip Steele, Forest Products; Donald Grebner, Forestry; Andrew Londo, Forestry
Graduate student: Kristi Manning, Animal and Dairy SciencesEconomical cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv.) suppression and wildlife enhancement using herbicide tolerant crops.
Investigators: John Byrd, Jr., Plant and Soil Sciences; Jeanne Jones, Wildlife and Fisheries; Glover Triplett, Plant and Soil Sciences; Judd Brooke, Landowner; Randy Browning, Wildlife Biologist, USDI Fish and WIldlife Service
Graduate student: Brian Burns, Weed ScienceOptimization of wildlife habitat values during mid-rotation management of pine stands.
Investigators: Stephen Demarais, Wildlife and Fisheries; L. Wes Burger, Wildlife and Fisheries; Ian Munn, Forestry, Brian Rude, Animal and Dairy Sciences; Bobby Watkins, BASF Corporation; Ben West, Wildlife and Fisheries
Graduate students: Melinda Ragsdale, Forest Resources; Brandon Sladek, ForestryBest management practices to conserve waste grain for wintering waterfowl in harvested rice fields.
Investigators: Richard Kaminski, Wildlife and Fisheries; Mark Kurtz, Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Delta Research and Extension Center; Joshua Stafford, Wildlife and Fisheries; Jennifer Kross, Wildlife and Fisheries; Kenneth Reinecke, U.S. Geological Survey; Stephen Grado, Forestry; Ben West, Wildlife and Fisheries
Graduate students: Jennifer Kross, Wildlife and Fisheries; Edward Penny, Wildlife and Fisheries; Joshua Stafford, Forest Resources
Landowner involvement and attitudes: Fee-access wildlife and fisheries recreation.
Investigators: John Byrd, Plant and Soil Sciences; Stephen Grado, Forestry; Emily Loden, Forestry; W. Daryl Jones, GeoResources Institute; Jeanne Jones, Wildlife and Fisheries; Ian Munn, Forestry; Jim Miller, Wildlife and Fisheries; Ben West, Wildlife and FisheriesNatural resource economic alternative enterprises. Objectives 1 and 2: The economics of wildlife-based alternative enterprises: Consumer demand and costs of production.
Investigators: Darren Hudson, Agricultural Economics; Greg Parkhurst, Agricultural Economics; Ian Munn, Forestry; Steve Grado, ForestryNatural resource economic alternative enterprises. Objective 3: Reducing landowner liability in Mississippi wildlife and fisheries enterprises.
Investigators: W. Daryl Jones, GeoResources Institute; Changyou Sun, ForestryNatural resource economic alternative enterprises. Objective 4: Description and assessment of the economic and biological feasibilities for alternative wildlife and fisheries-based enterprises.
Investigators: Stephen Grado, Forestry; Ian Munn, Forestry; W. Daryl Jones, GeoResources Institute
Graduate students: Corey Wigginton, Wildlife and Fisheries ScienceNatural resource economic alternative enterprises. Objective 6: Assess federal, state, and local policies in Mississippi and surrounding states that influence the capability of landowners or individuals to develop fee-access wildlife and fisheries enterprises.
Investigators: Gregory Parkhurst, Agricultural Economics; W. Daryl Jones, GeoResources Institute; Changyou Sun, Forestry
Graduate students: William Brake, Agricultural Economics; John Rick, Business Management; Corey Wigginton, Wildlife and Fisheries Science
Natural resource economic alternative enterprises. Objective 7: Economic impact of wildlife and fisheries resources in Mississippi
Investigators: W. Daryl Jones, GeoResources Institute; Stephen Grado, Forestry; Changyou Sun, Forestry; David Parvin, Agricultural EconomicsAn evaluation of the impact of long term flooding regimes on natural hardwood stands.
Investigators: Andrew Ezell, Forestry; Rick Kaminski, Wildlife and Fisheries; Richard Maiers, Forestry; Andrew Londo, Extension Service
Graduate students: Michael Guttery, ForestryWinter abundance of waste rice and natural seeds and avian use in post-harvest manipulated rice fields in Arkansas.
Investigators: Rick Kaminski, Wildlife and Fisheries
Graduate students: Houston Havens, Wildlife and Fisheries Science .Estimating acorn abundance on the Ames Plantation using remote sensing: Phase I (pilot feasibility survey).
Investigators: Richard Kaminski, Wildlife and Fisheries; David Evans, Forestry; Matthew Gray, Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, University of Tennessee
