Useful Phone Numbers
Mississippi
Hunting & Fishing
Beaver Problems/Animal Damage Control – USDA/WS – (662) 325-3014
Boat Registration/Titling – MDWFP – (601) 432-2055
Commercial Fishing – Fisheries – (601) 432-2200
Commercial Quail Breeders’ Licenses – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Commercial Wildlife Enclosures – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Disabled Hunting – MDWFP – (601) 432-2055
DMAP (Deer Mgmt. Assistance Program) – MDWFP – (601) 432-2199
Ducks/Geese with Leg Bands – USGS – reportband.gov
Environmental complaints (state) – MDEQ – (888) 786-0661
Environmental complaints (federal, EPA) – USEPA – (800) 241-1754
Environmental complaints – (federal, Corps of Engineers) – USACOE – (601) 631-5546
Falconry Permits – MDWFP – (601) 432-2196
Field Trial Permits (Bird Dog, Raccoon Hunt, Fox Hunt) – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Fish Kills (on public waters) – MEMA (24 hrs/day) – (800) 222-6362
Hunter Education – MDWFP – (601) 432-2180
Lifetime License – MDWFP – (601) 432-2055
McHenry Shooting Range – MDWFP – (601) 928-1645
McIvor Shooting Range – MDWFP – (662) 487-1946 (Charles Ray Nix WMA)
Mississippi Outdoors Magazine – MDWFP – (601) 432-2244 or (888) 874-5785 (to subscribe)
Mississippi Outdoors Television/Media – MDWFP – (601) 432-2250 or 432-2251
Pond /Aquatic Plant / Exotic Species Assistance – Fisheries – (601) 432-2200
Salt Water Regulations – MDMR – (228) 374-5000
Scientific Collecting Permits – Museum – (601) 576-6060
Shooting Preserves – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Sportsman’s License – MDWFP – (601) 432-2055
State Fishing Lakes – Fisheries – (601) 432-2206
Tamed Quail Permit (To train bird dogs) – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Taxidermy Permits – Regional Offices – see Wildlife Management Areas
Turcotte Shooting Range – MDWFP – (601) 859-3421
Reservoirs
Arkabutla – (662) 562-6261
Bay Springs – (662) 423-1287
Columbus Area Office, COE (Tenn-Tom Waterway) – (662) 327-2142
Enid – (662) 563-4571
Grenada – (662) 226-5911
Okatibbee – (601) 626-8431
Pickwick – (256) 386-2601
Ross Barnett – (601) 856-6574
Sardis – (662) 563-4531
Miscellaneous Numbers
Agriculture Museum – (601) 432-4500
MS Audubon Society – (662) 252-1155
Delta Wildlife Inc. – (662) 686-3370
Ducks Unlimited – (601) 956-1936
Grand Gulf Military Park – (601) 437-5911
Gulf Islands National Seashore – (228) 875-9057
Jackson Zoo – (601) 352-2580
MS Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce – (601) 359-1100
MS Dept. of Environmental Quality – (601) 961-5171
MS Dept. of Marine Resources – (228) 374-5000
MS Forestry Commission – (601) 359-1386
MS Nature Conservancy – (601) 713-3355 – MS Wildlife Federation – (601) 605-1790 – Natchez Trace Parkway-Tupelo – (662) 680-4027
Ridgeland – (601) 856-7321
National Forest Service MS – (601) 965-1600
Natural Resources Conservation Service – (601) 965-5205
Pat Harrison Waterway District – (800) 748-9618
U.S. Geological Survey – (601) 933-2900
U.S. Coast Guard-Gulfport – (228) 868-3743
Vicksburg Military Park – (601) 636-0583
Wildlife Mississippi – (662) 686-3375
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuges, and Fish Hatchery
Bogue Chitto NWR – (985) 882-2000
Coldwater River NWR – (662) 226-8286
Dahomey NWR – (662) 742-9331
Grand Bay NWR – (228) 475-0765
Hillside NWR – (662) 235-4989
Holt Collier NWR – (662) 839-2638
Jackson Office – (601) 965-4900
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR – (228) 497-6322
Morgan Brake and Matthews Brake NWR – (662) 235-4989
Noxubee NWR – (662) 323-5548
Panther Swamp NWR – (662) 836-3005
Private John Allen NFH – (662) 842-1341
St. Catherine Creek NWR – (601) 442-6696
Tallahatchie NWR – (662) 226-8286
T. Roosevelt NWR Complex – (662) 839-2638
Yazoo NWR – (662) 839-2638
Corps of Engineer Districts and Management Areas
Memphis – (800) 317-4156
Mobile – (251) 690-2576
Vicksburg – (601) 631-5000
National Forests
Bienville – (601) 469-3811, Forest
Chickasawhay – (601) 428-0594, Laurel
Delta – (662) 873-6256, Rolling Fork
DeSoto – (601) 528-6160, Wiggins
Holly Springs – (662) 236-6550, Oxford
Homochitto – (601) 384-5876, Meadville
State Office – (601) 965-1600, Jackson
Tombigbee – (662) 285-3264, Ackerman