Natural Areas Registry Natural Areas Registry The Mississippi
Natural Areas Registry is founded on our state's strong belief
in the rights of private property owners and our pride in
Mississippi's rich natural heritage. It is designed to honor and
recognize the owners of outstanding natural areas for the
commitment to preservation of our state's most unique remaining
habitats. Since more than two thirds of Mississippi is in
private ownership, our citizens hold the keys to the future
health of these habitats. Remnants of prairies, longleaf pine
savannahs, pitcher plant bogs, woodland ravines, streamside
forests of mixed beech and magnolias are just a few of the
special habitats that need to survive into the next century and
longer so that our generation won't be the last to know these
special places. The registry simply encourages the voluntary
preservation of important natural lands in private ownership. It
works by asking landowners to make non-binding agreements with
the Museum of Natural Science that they