Retired MSU professor releases new book on fishing and hunting

STARKVILLE, Miss.—A brand new guide by a Mississippi State wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture professor emeritus recollects searching and fishing within the South.

Donald Jackson’s “A Sportsman’s Journey,” revealed by the College Press of Mississippi, is his fourth guide and explores the connections between man and his surroundings.

Jackson, who continues instructing Ideas of Fisheries Administration within the Faculty of Forest Assets, stated he hopes readers garner a visceral expertise of life within the nice open air. 

“I hope when folks learn the guide, they really feel as in the event that they have been with me whereas I skilled it. I wish to create a shared journey folks can relate to that’s private to them, despite the fact that this story explores my very own searching and fishing journeys,” stated Jackson, who joined the MSU school in 1986.

Copies of Jackson’s guide could be bought by the College Press of Mississippi’s web site by visiting  www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Sportsman-s-Journey.

Jackson’s profession in instructing, analysis and wildlife left a beloved legacy and popularity with the MSU group. Distinguished particularly for his post-Hurricane Katrina restoration efforts within the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jackson led groups to revive fisheries and picked up funds for analysis. He was honored for his management within the American Fisheries Society Hurricane Catastrophe Reduction Program.

Jackson turned president of the American Fisheries Society in 2009 and is a fellow of the American Institute of Fishery Analysis Biologists. All through his profession, he traveled to each continent, besides Antarctica, and offered finest administration practices for fisheries, small our bodies of water and coastal communities.

To be taught extra concerning the MSU Division of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, go to www.cfr.msstate.edu/wildlife. To search out out extra concerning the MSU Faculty of Forest Assets, go to www.cfr.msstate.edu.

MSU is Mississippi’s main college, accessible on-line at www.msstate.edu.