Datasets / Sedimentation and Vegetative Changes On Hillside National Wildlife Refuge


Sedimentation and Vegetative Changes On Hillside National Wildlife Refuge

Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Hillside National Wildlife Refuge consists of about 16,000 acres in the MississippiYazoo River alluvial plain, at the foot of the loess bulff hills, in Holmes and Yazoo Counties, Mississippi. The Army Corps of Engineers purchased the refuge lands under the Hillside Floodway, Yazoo Basin Project 1964 and transferred the property to the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1974. A cutoff levee along the west edge of the refuge and a bluff on the east side form an elongated floodway that functions as a sediment collection area for Black and Fannegusha Creeks. Sedimentation altered the vegetative composition on a large portion of the north end of the refuge.