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  • Growing Trees for Wildlife: Meet the Tree Guy at Mossy Oak, Dudley Phelps

    Growing Trees for Wildlife: Meet the Tree Guy at Mossy Oak, Dudley Phelps
    2026/08/26
    You know Mossy Oak for deer and turkey hunting gear — but did you know they have a tree expert on staff? In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Dudley Phelps, known around Mossy Oak as "the tree guy," to talk about growing trees for wildlife habitat.

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    30 分
  • Light Pollution Is Confusing Migratory Birds: Ornithologist Murray Burgess Explains

    Light Pollution Is Confusing Migratory Birds: Ornithologist Murray Burgess Explains
    2026/08/19
    Have you noticed it's a little harder to see the stars at night lately? That's light pollution, and it turns out it's doing a lot more than dimming the night sky. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Murray Burgess, ornithologist at Mississippi State University, to talk about how artificial light is affecting migratory birds.

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    25 分
  • Mississippi's Hospitality Ambassador: Robert St. John on Food, Family & the Coast

    Mississippi's Hospitality Ambassador: Robert St. John on Food, Family & the Coast
    2026/08/12

    Mississippi is the Hospitality State — and few people have done more to prove it than Robert St. John. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with the Hattiesburg restaurateur, author, and travel host to talk about food, Mississippi, and a career that started because he flunked out of college.


    Mississippi Outdoors is produced by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.

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    30 分
  • How to Stock a Pond: Species, Timing, and Common Mistakes with Larry Bull

    How to Stock a Pond: Species, Timing, and Common Mistakes with Larry Bull
    2026/08/05
    If you've got a pond on your property — or you're about to dig one — this episode is for you. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Larry Bull, retired MDWFP fisheries biologist, to walk through exactly how to stock a pond and get it right the first time.

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    31 分
  • The Man on the Natchez Trace at Midnight: Zoologist Tom Mann & the Webster's Salamander

    The Man on the Natchez Trace at Midnight: Zoologist Tom Mann & the Webster's Salamander
    2026/07/29

    If you've driven the Natchez Trace on a rainy night south of I-20 and seen someone out there with a safety vest and a flashlight, that's zoologist Tom Mann — and he's been out there for over a decade studying Webster's salamanders.


    Tom joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to explain what Webster salamanders are, why scientists thought they didn't migrate, and how he and his wife Deb proved them wrong by spending years watching what the animals actually did instead of what the textbooks said.

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    32 分
  • Inside Mississippi's Marine Patrol: Law Enforcement on the Gulf Coast with Mike Strickland

    Inside Mississippi's Marine Patrol: Law Enforcement on the Gulf Coast with Mike Strickland
    2026/07/22
    Mike Strickland from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to talk about what marine patrol actually does — and it's a lot more than checking fishing licenses.

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    42 分
  • What Your Hunting License Really Pays For

    What Your Hunting License Really Pays For
    2026/07/15
    When you buy a hunting or fishing license in Mississippi, where does that money actually go? Russ Walsh, Director of Conservation at the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, breaks down why your license isn't just "permission to hunt" — it's a direct investment in the conservation work that brought deer, turkey, and other species back from near extinction.

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    25 分
  • Does Your Buck Make the Magnolia Records? Creator Rick Dillard Explains Everything

    Does Your Buck Make the Magnolia Records? Creator Rick Dillard Explains Everything
    2026/07/08
    If you've ever killed a deer in Mississippi and wondered if it might be a record, there's a program built specifically to find out — the Magnolia Records Program. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Rick Dillard, the U.S. Forest Service biologist who created it from scratch in 2001 and has been running it ever since.

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    43 分