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This document is not intended to be an outline for land use ordinances or for a statewide land use plan,
nor is it an evaluation or indictment of land use practices by an entity. Every activity by humans on the
Mississippi landscape has positive or negative impacts on wildlife and their habitats. The idea behind
this strategy is to provide information and guidance that may help minimize negative impacts and
maximize positive impacts. The emphasis of this effort is not on developing new regulations, but on
more effective implementation of existing regulations and on development of new partnerships for
conservation in the future.
This CWCS represents a foundation on which our agency and many other partners hope to build a more
detailed conservation action plan for our state that further defines priority conservation areas and
combines the efforts and resources of many partners to achieve the overall goal of improving
biodiversity in Mississippi.