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Coahoma County
 In cooperation with the Yazoo Mississippi Levee Board, provided
22 wood duck boxes to area citizens to enhance 66 acres that will
provide habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds (2002).
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 Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat)
to 1 landowner that resulted in 13 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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In cooperation with the Natural Resources Conservation Service,
restored 166 acres of bottomland hardwoods with 1 landowner that
will provide habitat for a diversity of wildlife (2002).
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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 3 landowners that resulted in 149 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (2001). |
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As part of the Mississippi Partners Project, restored 230 acres
of waterfowl habitat with 3 landowners that will provide habitat
for a diversity of waterfowl (2001). |
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In cooperation
with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, restored 142
acres of bottomland hardwoods with 1 landowner that will provide
habitat for a diversity of wildlife (2001).
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In cooperation with the Yazoo Mississippi Levee Board, provided
25 wood duck boxes and 25 song bird nesting boxes to area citizens
to enhance 75 acres that will provide habitat for a diversity
of cavity nesting birds (2001). |
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Provided low-cost
seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat) to 5 landowners
that resulted in 444 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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In cooperation
with the Yazoo Mississippi Levee Board, provided 21 wood duck
boxes and 22 song bird nesting boxes to area citizens to enhance
64 acres that will provide habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting
birds (2000).
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Worked with
Senators Thad Cochran (R-MS), Trent Lott (R-MS) and Herb Kohl
(D-WI) to fund an additional 100,000 acres of wetland restoration
through the Wetland Reserve Program. To date,  2,584
acres of wetlands have been restored through the Wetland Reserve
Program in Coahoma County. Nationwide, through this program, approximately
1,075,000 acres of wetlands have been restored. Mississippi has
restored over 100,000 acres of wetlands through the program, ranks
#1 in the nation in net gain of wetlands and ranks #2 in the nation
in the overall number of acres restored through the program (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 (1999).
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Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat)
to 1 landowner that resulted in 146 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (1999). |
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