The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ruled in favor of protecting the Pearl River map turtle under the Endangered Species Act on Tuesday. The decision puts a bump in the road for a potential dam ...

The 2007 district map contains mostly Rankin County. The Mississippi Legislature ... make flash flooding in Jackson a problem—which the "One Lake" project is not designed to help.

Additional flooding is expected if a proposed One Lake project is completed ... the only part of the presentation with a map illustrating geographic areas in Jackson that would receive downstream ...

Earlier this year, McGowan's earlier Two Lakes of Mississippi ... has told the Jackson Free Press that the new plan would allow the second lake to be added to the north of the one-lake plan ...

“The local cost share cannot be paid for with any federal funding, so it has to come from the taxpayers of Mississippi ... One Lake Project could flood parts of South Jackson.

At the University of Southern Mississippi back in 2010 ... and the Pascagoula river system,” Selman said. Pearl River Map Turtles Endangered: Could Jackson One Lake flood control project be delayed ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba ... The turtle that could delay One Lake: Pearl River Map Turtles could delay One Lake project. What exactly are these turtles? “Structures with no action ...

this turtle could be the catalyst for halting a huge and controversial engineering project upriver in Jackson, Mississippi, known locally as “One Lake.” Devros weighs and tags the map turtle ...

More on One Lake Project: New flood control plan for Pearl River would be far less expensive Pearl River map turtles are freshwater turtles native to the Pearl River in Mississippi and Louisiana, ...