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George County
 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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 Donated seed
to plant 25 acres of grain sorghum food plots, 5 acres of soybean
food plots and 15 acres of corn food plots on Upper Pascagoula
Wildlife Management Area (2001).
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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 (2000).
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Provided low-cost
seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat) to 2 landowners
that resulted in 77 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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Provided low-cost
seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat) to 1 landowner
that resulted in 21 acres of food plots to benefit a diversity
of wildlife (1999).
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