Pine savannas in the Gulf Coastal Plain are home to a diverse array of plants and wildlife which rely on open-canopied grassland habitats. While these ecosystems were once dominant in the landscape of the southeastern United States, they have been reduced to less than 3% of their historic range due to fire suppression and land development over the past century. Rights-of-way, such as those of powerlines and gas pipelines, must be managed to maintain early successional habitats out of necessity and as such may be able to provide conservation benefit to species which are adversely effected by woody encroachment. In Jackson County, Mississippi, a one-mile pipeline right-of-way managed by Williams Pascagoula exists on Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge lands and receives periodic mowing to maintain a low-lying herbaceous layer. In 2026, staff from the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve will begin vegetation and insect (Order Lepidoptera) monitoring activities along a ¼ mile portion of the pipeline to determine which species utilize plants in this managed right-of-way, either as food in the larval stage or for pollination in the adult stage, what the existing plant community makeup is, and which forbs are present for use as nectar-producing resources. Through this we will inform changes to the land management regime as necessary and these changes may include altering the timing of mowing to best allow for greatest representation of mature flowering plants in their appropriate bloom season, chemical treatments for invasive plant species, or planting of forb species such as milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) if necessary to supplement pollinator resources. This work, done in tandem with Williams Pascagoula, will improve grassland and pollinator conservation strategies in our region, provide detail on current use of rights-of-way by moth and butterfly species, and will detail the quality of these habitats should they need to be improved in ways which will benefit these natural resources.