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Clarke County
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 Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower
and winter wheat) to 6 landowners that resulted in 272 acres of
food plots to benefit a diversity of wildlife (2002). |
 Worked with Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) to establish the National
Bobwhite Quail Conservation Initiative (2002). |
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 Worked with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to establish
a practice through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program
to cost-share with landowners at a rate of up to $300/acre for
cogongrass control (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 4 landowners that resulted in 67 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (2001). |
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 Provided 8
bird boxes to enhance 8 acres at Clark State Park that will provide
habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds (2001).
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Working with
Congressmen Chip Pickering (R-MS), Ronnie Shows (D-MS), Bennie
Thompson (D-MS), Mike Thompson (D-CA)  and
Roger Wicker (R-MS), as well as the Congressional Sportsmen's
Caucus, The Nature Conservancy and the National Cattleman's Beef
Association, to develop a Grasslands Reserve Program. Mississippi
has two prairies, or grasslands as they are commonly called; one
is in Northeast Mississippi (the Black Prairie) and one is in
South Central Mississippi (the Jackson Prairie). The program,
if passed by Congress and signed into law by the President, will
compensate landowners for restoring native prairie (2001).
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Provided low-cost
seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat) to 9 landowners
that resulted in 175 acres of food plots to benefit a diversity
of wildlife (2000).
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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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