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OK. Thank you thank. You. Mississippi wilderness because special language people spend a lifetime learning to translate. Some people never even listen. Some people hear a poll and others only noice the language of the Willis is heard sometimes in a whisper sometimes in a shout. It tells us stories of yesterday. He speaks of tomorrow with great authority it calls us. It's things to us and it gives us a general warning. It is the language

of comedy and tragedy of legend and less and if we will take the time to understand it will tell us the secrets of living in. You are. There was a time when the language of the wilderness was the only word spoken. With the family. Mission Valley based alone could hear its message. It was the kind of balance in the universe. I am when change was measured in Iran. Apparently Iran meant.

The story of this can is recorded. All right. THIS IS IT IS SUCH A BAD. Fossilized remains of animals. The. Bottom. Range the guy. The trainees break their silence of thirty bad million years to give us a bowl reminder of our natural heritage instead of decay. They became an everlasting monument to themselves. They tell us that long before there was none. It would truly. It was a time when the language of the wilderness was spoken on May. Return with great provider. And man took from the land that which sustained him nothing more. For ten thousand years the Indian called Mississippi home. The honey.

The fish. He planted and harvested. He claimed the right to use the land. Not to own it. He knew a kid shoot. There came a time when European languages were spoken in the Mississippi when it was a time when land meant territory in the name of a king. First came the Spanish speaking trade routes and cities of go they found instead the Chickasaw Choctaw the neches and the great river known as the Father of Waters. They found too that the Far East to heaven the timbered in the bottom lands with coverage of the Navy is. One hundred and fifty years later the British explorer discovered a country that just grabbed his intermixed with extensive fields than meadows and numbers of.

A land explained with. Agra. An early 18th century Dutch promise to serve the bountiful energy trap he wrote of general rising ground fertile groves and meadows. He attributed the fertility of the land to the many Brooks. Which fed the rivers. Into the numbers of rivers. Which fell into the sea. He spoke for many who would come later when he prophesied this country promises great riches to such shall in heaven. The Englishmen followed the French dragon with them and the Spanish for control of this new family. If the Europeans brought civilization to the wilderness they also made a mark on the land with other than their flags. They introduced diseases to the Indian which swept through the villages with a vengeance equaled only by the fierce fight. The traitors

demand for help supplied by the Indian trappers and hunters led to the over exploitation of many fur bearing animals forcing some tribes to move to a land beyond the great river. The pioneers introduced a new sound to the wilderness. The newcomers settled on the river and the coast and pushed back the wilderness. Eighteen hundred. They had fashion for themselves a territory. They opened up the land to the north with over land routes like the Natchez Trace which was once

a bass and I had an Indian tree. They brought slaves to work the song and they introduced a type of agriculture never practiced by the Indians. They cleared vast tracts of land and planted yet the year with the same rot robbing the salt of the church. As more and more settlers came they forced the Indians on the small and smaller parcels of land bringing an end to the bison and greatly reducing the barren Dear Indian practice of setting factor the Far East yearly to rid of undergrowth and reintroduce minerals to the soil disappeared. It was a time when land meant property and possession of it gave its owner the right to become a citizen and the right to vote and the land owners gave their property in you name they called it a state. All but a handful of the original inhabitants were moved to Oklahoma clearing the way for a new influx of settlers. It was a time when another king was recognized

in Mississippi. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh oh. And. It was also a time when land meant country and the allegiance of this better nation also divided families and friends. The suffering endured by those who fought the war and by those for whom the war was all. Bullshit in a new century in Mississippi. But the hardship will be felt by the people. It was also that it's no longer the land. Collapse of the Confederacy in the bitter economic struggle that ensued set the stage for further

exploitation. The Mississippi wilderness was still seen as something to be conquered. Something to be used. With no thought given to the fact that it was also being used to. Plan to state a foreign was cut and stocked with cattle. And little by little or no to them to govern. The Riverdale Mississippi's last frontier. Was cleared in response trying to open up vast tracts of. Land. Woodlands were stripped of them with little thought given to reforestation. Some of natural cause and some deliberateness that the thousands of acres market hunting in the early 1900s. Seriously damage the wildlife population almost eliminating bear and greatly

reducing Wild Turkey India. Small game with still abundant but encroaching settlements forced a constant change in habitat. Towns and cities begin to adopt the rural landscape and roads and highways in railroads begin to connect them all. Land now I'm in. Homestead. When many of the voices once heard in the wilderness were heard no more. We begin to understand with great sorrow the consequences of manipulating our environment tragedies like the 1927 flood in creations like the Dust Bowl of the Midwest taught us that we had a hand in manufacturing our own misfortune. We learned the lesson of give and take with taken from the land. Now we had to give. We created bureaus and agencies in commissions and services to help us restock and replanted revitalize. We work to restore our natural heritage. We learned that the land meant resource something to be managed and protected.

We begin to treat it with respect. Honestly. I did work. Am I eating. I know I

am. We also learn to value the land for the generosity with which it afforded us pleasure. Thank you. Thank. You. Thank you. Thank. You I asked. This is 50 years in unmapped territory of possibility. We climb up our

vantage point as we stand on the brink of the mine. You can look back and see where we've come from. Look around us and learn from the successes and failures of others. We can look ahead and make sound plans on the ground. We can ensure that Mississippi does more than expand. We can develop. But to do so requires careful design and reasonable compromise. We must not take a step forward. And found ourselves losing ground at the same time. In order to enjoy the blessings of progress and the benefits of growth. We must make some concessions but we must not destroy our way of life. We've lost over a half million acres of forest land in the past 10 years. We move the forest to sad to have room to grow.

But we must not do so indiscriminately and we must understand the consequences. WE channel as to what three thousand three hundred miles of natural strange and river. Have similar plans for three thousand more. There is a need for some genuine flood control along our national waterways but only after careful examination of the facts. The alternatives just the facts. We know that the price of progress is great. We have already paid with great portions of our natural heritage. We found the will to. Deal with you. Is it any wonder that we had to create an agent to protect the environment from myself.

Now is the Tampa policy in the midst of that now is the time to write a new definition for life. Now is the time to understand our place in the art of science. Now while we still have some wilderness left. In Mississippi it's we will laugh enough to do that. There it's in 1070 before the legislature established the wildlife heritage committee authorizing it to purchase land in water areas. The hunting and fishing and related recreation and to provide habitat for rare and endangered wildlife species lands are slyer through the efforts of Many Bears industry private landowners government agents special assistance is given by the Nature Conservancy a private nonprofit conservation accomplish. Once in public ownership lands are administered by the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission

in comparison with neighboring states. Mississippi is poor in terms of wilderness property own. But the wild live Heritage Committee is working to close down. Significant acquisitions noted for their diversity as well as acreage have already been made. The Pascagoula track. Thirty two thousand acres of stream. Timber and slews along the Pascagoula River in Jackson in Georgetown is. One of the largest areas of land ever acquired by state. And one of the unique natural areas remaining in the southeastern United States. I'll bring you our life of every song. Is the home to such rare animals as the American alligator. They yell a blotch style back turtle. And the swallow tail

kite. It also abounds in games popular with sports. There. Squirrel. An out there. And it's a fisherman's delight. Task section a plan built of bottomland hardwood in waterfowl habitat located in the floor and. Its owner Mr. Hayward Jackson wanted to see his land preserved so he sold the wildlife heritage committee over eight hundred acres of land. Joining them now Mason wildlife management and then he generously donated back over 15

percent of the purchase price. A good example of how asked citizens can help preserve our natural heritage. Everyone's enjoying it. Part crazy man includes fans of reaching his first week gone then populist a monster bank investor with Bernard where'er appliance found room to grow and wildflowers waiting to be clear. Waters around the bin and suddenly cascade part of a Wilkinson County wonderland. Some four hundred and thirty acres of this spectacular site have been donated to the site by the International Paper Company located in a wooded area adjacent to the Mississippi River. This property represents the first

industrial gift of land in Mississippi to be set aside and protected as a natural area. And. These threats and this is in the wilderness belong to Allah and only because of thoughtful management careful consideration. The last planet we must continue to use such care and wisdom to protect these lands and to take steps to bring other areas into public ownership. In 1976 the wildlife heritage committee and initiated a program to do just that. Working with the Pat Harrison waterway destry the Pearl River Basin development district the Bureau of outdoor recreation and the Nature Conservancy they established a natural area inventory. It's tough to identify significant natural areas.

And recommend methods of protecting biologists with the endo and collecting analyze data from the states colleges and universities incentive to community. They verified the continued existence of occurrences previously documented. They identified the locations of special features. Features like an ancient plant a quaking bomb. The nesting place or the Mississippi sandhill crane. A yellow light is the home of the red cock. After the team surveys the areas needing preservation. They recommend what type of protection is best. There Fanning's are used to help set priorities on which areas need attention first. Prime consideration is given to areas where critically endangered species have been sighted like a nesting area of the bald eagle on the Gulf Coast and deed all around the

state there is much work to be done. What we know about the remaining wilderness in Mississippi gives us much reason for concern that it be preserved and what we have yet to learn gives us an even greater chance. Setting aside land now we have protected options on the beach. Out of lipo generally regarded as the father of game management in this country once remarked that the prerequisite to intelligent tinkering is to save all the pieces and all the pieces it's what made possible such discoveries in nature is penicillin and plant that you know which is unable to be measured by man today. If you keep an open such possibility is not reason enough to prance in the land. We need only consider its potential as a financial investment which can be measured in. The standings. The inventory point to the land's worth in another area. Make it possible for us to move into tomorrow in Mississippi with enlightment.

Developers and government officials can make informed decisions about land use Tekken probably plain. Even environmental impact projections down from the computer store today. The Natural Area inventory operates out of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. It's a division of the Mississippi Game and Fish Commission located in Jackson the museum is a valuable source of information on Mississippi's native plants and. It has been said that conservation. Is somewhat self-defeating. That to appreciate the wilderness. We must stay in touch. And then when many have seen untouched there will be no wilderness left. The Natural Science Museum can help us prevent such loss. Its displays give us all access to the wonders of the wilderness with the added benefit of supporting educational material. It helps us enjoy the music without contributing in a no.

As we use these resources to grow in our knowledge and appreciation of our natural heritage we will begin to have a deeper understanding of the message of the wilderness. But for true communication to take place we must all speak the same language. We must all begin to say with the same clarity as the first inhabitants. They knew the land as a community to which living things belong. It is said that one of their chiefs issued this warning over a century ago in the last red man has vanished from the earth and the memory is only a shadow of a cloud moving across the shores and forest to a still hold the spirits of my people. If we said. Love it is we have not care for as we have cared for it with all your strength. The beast in this land is your brother. For if all the beasts were gone man would die from the great loneliness of space.

All things off and then whatever befalls the earth follows the sons of the earth. And the buffalo are slaughtering the wild horses all the time. So you could converse of the past have it with the scene. Where is the god. Where is the eagle. Gone. Where is fly. Gone in the. All things are indeed connected. That is the message of the wilderness. How they connect and why and where are questions whose answers

unravel the mysteries of life. To destroy the wilderness is to destroy our chance of ever knowing. When the wilderness is gone. Why as me and will no longer ponder whether there is a sound if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it. We will be civilized but we will never know. Thank. God thank thank God thank you. I hope I hope.