{"id":722,"date":"2008-03-25T09:35:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T09:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/03\/25\/delta-state-to-focus-attention-on-natural-resources-of-the-delta\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:47","slug":"delta-state-to-focus-attention-on-natural-resources-of-the-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2008\/03\/delta-state-to-focus-attention-on-natural-resources-of-the-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to focus attention on Natural Resources of the Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"285\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/01Heritage.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Delta State University&rsquo;s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences will serve as host to an Environmental Science Symposium in conjunction with The Year of Delta Heritage on Friday, April 4 from 8:45 a.m.- noon in Room 105 of Caylor Hall on the Campus.<\/font> <\/p>\n<div><span>The theme of the symposium is &ldquo;The History of Natural Resource Management in the Delta.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>Guest speakers will include Larry Castle, Chief of Wildlife for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP), who will present&ldquo;A Brief Overview of Wildlife Conservation History in the Delta.&rdquo;&nbsp; Brad Young, biologist for MDWFP, will discuss&ldquo;Black Bears in Mississippi: Past, Present, and Future.&rdquo;&nbsp; Kevin Nelmswith the Natural Resource Conservation Service(NRCS) will present <em>&ldquo;SCS to NRCS<\/em>, Conservation Changes in the Mississippi Delta<em>&rdquo; and <\/em>Trey Cooke executive directorof Delta Wildlife will present&ldquo;Delta Wildlife, Focused on Habitat Restoration in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.&rdquo;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span>The event is free and open to the public.&nbsp;For more information about the symposium, contact Dr. Jeffrey Duguay at (662) 846-4242.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University&rsquo;s Division of Biological and Physical Sciences will serve as host to an Environmental Science Symposium in conjunction with The Year of Delta Heritage on Friday, April 4&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41887,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/41887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}