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Pearl River County
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 Provided a Physically Challenged Shooting House
to the Old River Wildlife Management Area (2002). |
 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). |
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 In partnership with the Mississippi Extension Service,
helped host a Longleaf Pine Field Day (2002). |
| Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower
and winter wheat) to 5 landowners that resulted in 115 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 11 landowners that resulted in 156 acres of food
plots to benefit a diversity of wildlife (2001).
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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 Wolf River Wildlife
Management Area (2001).
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Donated seed to plant 10 acres of soybean food plots and 20 acres
of grain sorghum food plots on Old River Wildlife Management Area
(2001). |
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Donated
seed to plant 10 acres of soybean food plots and 20 acres of grain
sorghum food plots on Wolf River Wildlife Management Area (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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Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat)
to 4 landowners that resulted in 137 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (2000). |
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Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat)
to 2 landowners that resulted in 381 acres of food plots to benefit
a diversity of wildlife (1999). |
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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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