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Winston County
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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 1 landowner that resulted in 0 acres of food plots to
benefit a diversity of wildlife (2001). |
Provided 8 bird boxes to enhance 8 acres at Tombigbee National Forest
that will provide habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds
(2001). |
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| Provided 8 bird
boxes to enhance 8 acres at Legion State Park that will provide
habitat for a diversity of cavity nesting birds (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). |
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
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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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