Podcast: What's going on with Mississippi state parks?

Longtime Mississippi Sierra Club Director Louie Miller talks about Mississippi’s state parks system, which has suffered from decades of neglected maintenance.

February 7, 2022

Podcast: What’s going on with Mississippi state parks? by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today February 7, 2022 The Sierra Club opposes a current push to privatize state parks, and says Mississippi should instead use some of the billions in federal stimulus money flowing to the state to upgrade the state’s parks, and keep them affordable and accessible to Mississippians. Listen to more episodes of The Other Side here.

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