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Choctaw County
  Established
a perpetual conservation easement on 43 acres of mixed hardwoods
and pine in partnership with the Mississippi Land Trust (2002). |
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 Worked with Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to establish
the National Bobwhite Quail Conservation Initiative (2002). |
Working with the White House and the United States Congress on the
Conservation Title of the 2002 Farm Bill. It will reauthorize and
fund programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program, Environmental
Quality Incentives Program, Wetland Reserve Program and the Wildlife
Habitat Incentives Program (2002). |
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Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat)
to 1 landowner that resulted in 5 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (2001). |
Provided 10 bird boxes to enhance 10 acres with French Camp Academy
that will provide habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds
(2001). |
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Working with French Camp Academy to improve the fisheries resources
of their lake (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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