Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee

The Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee (LMRCC) is a cooperative, nonprofit organization of state and federal agencies working to renew and effectively managie the natural resources of the Lower Mississippi River. 

The LMRCC has three broad goals that will improve the Lower Mississippi River’s aquatic resources.  These goals are to:  

1. raise public awareness of the River as an ecosystem (most people aren’t aware of the river’s natural resources)  
2. implement sustainable land use changes on the floodplain by working with willing private landowners to reforest marginal agricultural lands, and  
3. increase public interaction with the river by promoting consumptive (hunting and fishing) and non-consumptive (tourism, bird watching, camping, recreational boating, etc.) uses.