Browsing: Environment

Mississippi is “Nature’s Playground” and it’s home to some of the best-kept secrets in ecotourism.

It’s that time of year when coastal residents keep gasoline in their automobiles, ice in their freezers and their eyes on named storms. When a storm gets a name, our attention status rises.

Humans have a thing for counting things. As a child, I could tell you how many baseball cards or marbles I had in my collections. How many different kinds also mattered – the key concept of the term diversity.

Be on the watch for another summer session with Venarske and learn about his top five favorites from the more than 3,000 plant species and varieties found in the 21 diverse ecoregions of our state. Just wait until you learn about one plant that is native to nowhere else on earth except Mississippi!