"As most of you know, when we construct highways, we sometimes make an unavoidable impact on wetlands and rivers and so forth, and so we create what's called a mitigation bank to mitigate for those losses," Hall said, adding that the land would help protect the Pearl River, which is the drinking-water source for Jackson, as well as serve as a flood-control area for Flowood. The lands remain chained off from authorized public use for now. The department then sets aside these mitigation lands, as they are called, to balance out the negative impact of other development. Hall explained before the deed presentation that MDOT purchased the land over years from International Paper as a way to offset the cost to the environment from infrastructure projects like highway expansion. "In fact, it will be in the top 20 east of the Mississippi River, three times the size of Central Park (in New York City)." "When Wildlife Mississippi finishes what they are going to do to prepare it, it's going to be one of the largest urban-type green areas in the Eastern United States," Hall said. "This is one of the biggest deals that l have had the privilege of attending."
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2 ceremony, in a patch of the land that touched the Pearl River bank, overlooking the river. "This is a big deal," MDOT Commissioner Dick Hall said during the Nov. Wildlife Mississippi named the park after Fannye Cook, an advocate for the creation of the first state department dedicated to conservation, now known as the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. The Mississippi Department of Transportation handed over the deed to a private organization, Wildlife Mississippi, for the 2,700 acres, some of which is the last undeveloped, publicly held land in the Jackson metro area, to create a recreational area. "As a child growing up in the county, we used to come here and do some extracurricular activities that I can't talk about," Flowood Mayor Gary Rhoads said, adding that he and others referred to the area as the "big woods." He spoke to a crowd gathered at the bank of the Pearl River on that land to mark the transfer of the land to a private nonprofit. The current mayor of Flowood is one of them. JACKSON Locals have long used the large chunk of land north of Pearl and south of the reservoir, a pie-chunk of untouched wild, for recreation.
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