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Stone County
 Provided low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower
and winter wheat) to 2 landowners that resulted in 40 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 48 acres of food plots to
benefit a diversity of wildlife (2001). |
| 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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seed to plant 10 acres of soybean food plots and 20 acres of grain
sorghum food plots on Red Creek 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 Little Biloxi Wildlife Management Area (2001).
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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).
ildlife Management Area (2001). |
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low-cost seed (corn, sorghum, sunflower and winter wheat) to 2 landowners
that resulted in 36 acres of food plots to benefit a diversity of
wildlife (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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