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Itawamba County
 Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower
and winter wheat) to 4 landowners that resulted in 102 acres of
food plots to benefit a diversity of wildlife (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, soybean, sunflower and
winter wheat) to 3 landowners that resulted in 34 acres of food
plots to benefit a diversity of wildlife (2001).
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Provided 8 bird boxes to enhance 8 acres at Canal Section Wildlife
Management Area 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 2 landowners that resulted in 51 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 (1999). |
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