By Walt Grayson
May 10, 2021 | 6:16 PM
TISHOMINGO COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – We’re nearly halfway through May and a lot of people are trying to figure out some weekend runaways for the summer. When some places seem too far, but you still need to get away, then head up the Natchez Trace to Tishomingo State Park.
I like the park because the sandstone and limestone rock outcroppings are definitely not typical Mississippi-ish. Not that I don’t like typical Mississippi, but we are talking about going somewhere nearby that seems like a get away.
You are on the fringes of the Appalachian Plateau, and Bear Creek has a carved its way down through the rocks to create another atypical Mississippi setting; a stream that runs north. One of the landmarks of Tishomingo Park is the suspension bridge over Bear Creek. There are climbable rocks on the other side, or you can just sit in the creek.
The enemy no more, fire helps regenerate forests
Virginia Mercury Photos/Sarah Vogelsong
Members of a fire team carry out a prescribed burn last month on Summers Mountain in Highland County.
Sam Lindblom of the Nature Conservancy prepares a drone to drop ignitable âDragon Eggsâ over Summers Mountain during the prescribed burn. We do know that Indigenous people were burning. The Shenandoah Valley was open. We had bison, we had elk. So they were burning historically to keep these places open for grazing lands. Justin Barnes, state forester
HIGHLAND COUNTY â On the warmest day of 2021 yet, the fire swept over Summers Mountain in a remote corner of Highland, a Virginia county so lightly populated that cattle outnumber humans by almost seven times.
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With Covid relief passed, Biden prepares to stake his presidency and Democratic majorities on infrastructure
CNBC 3/10/2021 Thomas Franck
With President Joe Biden s Covid stimulus package set to become law, the White House now turns its attention to a once-in-a-generation infrastructure bill.
During the campaign, Biden pitched a $2 trillion plan that aims to achieve carbon-free power generation by 2035 and creates millions of union jobs.
Infrastructure is a bipartisan issue, but divisions exist between progressive Democrats and a coalition of moderates and Republicans. Do not think of the infrastructure bill as just roads and bridges. Democrats view an infrastructure bill as the infrastructure necessary to build the economy of the future, Raymond James told clients Monday.
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