Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior
Issued over 9 years ago
Summary
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.