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The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is a 240,000-acre (970 km 2), [2] 261-mile long (420 km) National Wildlife Refuge located in and along the Upper Mississippi River. It runs from Wabasha, Minnesota in the north to Rock Island, Illinois in the south. (United States Fish and Wildlife Service)
The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is home to museum exhibits on the culture and history of America's rivers. The campus also includes over a dozen aquariums featuring wildlife representative of that found in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico and other river systems and deltas, including giant catfish, sturgeon, ducks, frogs, turtles, rays, octopodes, river otters, and ...
Mississippi Aquarium is a nonprofit [5] public aquarium located in Gulfport, Mississippi; it opened August 29, 2020. [6] The 5.8-acre (2.3 ha) complex incorporates both indoor and outdoor habitats with more than 200 species of animals and 50 species of native plants. Construction costs were paid through federal, state, local, and private ...
The park features boating, swimming, waterskiing and fishing on 550-acre (220 ha) Lake Lincoln, overnight camping, as well as day-use. Park amenities include recreational vehicle camping, vacation cabins and cottages, beach, picnic area with shelters, nature trail, playground, playing fields, boat launch, laundry facilities, disc golf, and worship services.
JAKE OFFENHARTZ. August 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — A couple of longtime Brooklyn residents were lounging in the heat last week, staring at a sidewalk tree pit often flooded by a leaky ...
NRHP reference No. 97001437. Added to NRHP. December 1, 1997. Wall Doxey State Park is a public recreation area located off Mississippi Highway 7, seven miles (11 km) south of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The state park is centered on 60-acre (24 ha) Spring Lake. [3] It is named for white Democrat politician Wall Doxey.
The Ross Barnett Reservoir, often called the Rez, is a reservoir of the Pearl River between Madison and Rankin counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The 33,000-acre (130 km 2) lake serves as the state's largest drinking water resource, and is managed by the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. The lake features 105 miles (169 km) of ...
December 1, 1997. Roosevelt State Park is a public recreation area located off Interstate 20 on the southwest side of Morton, Mississippi. The state park surrounds 150-acre (61 ha) Shadow Lake at the western edge of Bienville National Forest, between Jackson and Meridian. It is managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.