Jackson Jambalaya

I don't see any discussion regarding their decision to permanently close most of the tourist area of Great River Road State Park at Rosedale. Less than three weeks ago they violated the lease and state law by torching the huge, creosote tower and river-viewing area. The school board has now terminated their lease. Mississippi is not the only state on the river with zero state park area available for adequate viewing of the river.

Everything MDWFP has done regarding taking over this park and turning it into a high-dollar hunting resort has been done in the dark without public comment period. More politics as usual.

Correction: Mississippi is NOW the only state on the river with zero state park area available for viewing the river.

Sam Polles is a good guy, they have shit for a budget and they are doing the best they can with limited funds. License sales for hunting have gone down every year. Millennials don't like being outside away from Wifi and vapor cigs.

They now have Art Kinnard who is in charge of Real Estate Services for the state. They are selling the houses and 40 acres of Canemount Plantation. It's widely suspected that one high ranking official and his buddies have been using it for their personal camp for a few years since he has a camp that borders it.

They are making a killing off of these swamp people wannabe's with this gator hunting racket.

Is Devinney still pushing his high fence and breeding stock agenda?

These men on the board don't represent the common hunter in this state. The most qualified don't have the funds to donate to the guv'nah to get the position.

The Wildlife and Fish Commissioners have always treated state hunting land as if it were their own----BIG SHOTS WITH BIG BUCKS----they bought their positions on the commission with donations. What ever happened to people like my Dad and Granddad that never had a night of unrest because they screwed over someone. The world has become a sorry ass place !!!!!!!! It's always the taxpayer that takes it in the but.

3:01; I've heard a thousand people claim Polles is a good guy. He may be. But, he's an ineffective manager. His budget is millions. You're full of crap if you actually think that department is struggling on a shoe-string. The point here is that they've squandered parks, paid no attention to citizen concerns, pandered only to the interest of big dollar hunters and populated the agency with good ole boys for forty or fifty years. The only reason they have minorities on the payroll now is due to EEOC and court actions. Look at the history of who their top management has been. Start with the brother of Amy Tuck. Wait, go back to Bob Tyler. All politics. The public be damned.

Love all the wannabes here. Anybody that contributes to a candidate is unqualified to serve in any capacity, but the good-ol-boys sitting around the fire out by the barn could do a much better job.

The DWFP should be turned over to the hunters - they are the only ones that have any interest in the herd. And that doesn't mean anybody that hunts and has money as well; they only care about themselves.

Ain't gonna argue about Tuck, but explain to me why Tyler wasn't qualified to be director of Parks? Just because he had been a coach?

And Polles certainly didn't get his job because of any contributions - first time he ever had any contact with Fordice was after he was named to be ED.

Someone still needs to explain to me how Coopwood got appointed over Jones reappointment

Coopwood got appointed in the Delta because he's a publisher. And he pretty much single-handedly destroyed the Rosedale park which is in his district.

Bob Tyler's appointment twenty years ago was strictly political. How would being a football coach qualify one to run half the Wildlife Agency? Same with Aubrey Rozelle who was long time Commissioner of Parks for that agency.

All of the Commissioners for this agency are appointed by the governor of the state.

No budget? Drive out to Eastover and look at that Taj Mahal they carved out of the side of a mountain.