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Calhoun County
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 Worked with Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)
to establish the National Bobwhite Quail Conservation Initiative
(2002). |
Provided 8 bird boxes to enhance 8 acres at Grenada Waterfowl Refuge
that will provide habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds
(2001). |
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Provided 8 bird boxes to enhance 8 acres at Calhoun County Wildlife
Management Area that will provide habitat for a diversity of cavity
nesting birds (2001). |
Worked with Senators
Trent Lott (R-MS), Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Herb Kohl (D-WI) to provide
an additional $12.5 million for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives
Program. In 1996, Senator Cochran introduced an amendment to the
1996 Farm Bill authorizing  and
funding the program. To date, it has utilized $62.5 million to enroll
approximately 1,750,000 acres utilizing approximately 10,750 long-term
agreements. Landowners and partners contributed an additional $37.5
million toward the program. Mississippi has received $2.7 million
in funding and ranks #2 in the nation in funding from the Wildlife
Habitat Incentives Program. This program has enhanced and restored
38,309 acres of fish and wildlife habitat throughout Mississippi's
82 counties (2000).
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Donated 1 decoy deer to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife,
Fisheries and Parks to help curtail the poaching of whitetail
deer (1998). |
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