Pastures and farmlands have crowded out most of the blackberries and huckleberries. The cedars have blighted the apple trees and in 1974 the wormsand flies have blighted the pecan trees with a fungus. Wildlife was once abundant, but much of it began to disappear with the passing of the frontier. Today there are almost more hunters than deer, turkey, quail, squirrel and rabbit. There are a few hunters for fox, raccoon, duck, mink and o'possum.
Beavers are numerous and destructive to trees by the river.
The woods still ring with the wide range of the official State mockingbird and the citizens enjoy watching for the first flight of migratory birds heading to and from the tropics. Pearl is a pleasant place to live. In 1824 the Indians, whom the early ancestors of Pearl en-countered along the Pearl River, at that time in Copiah County, were the Choctaws. Supposedly the Choctaw tribesmen migrated to the Mississippi area from the West. Tradition has it that they came on their long journey under the leadership of Choctaw and his brother Chickasaw who founded the two tribes and gave their names to them.