Field Supervisor, Mississippi Field Office
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Ray Aycock is the Field Supervisor for the MIssissippi Field Office of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service located in Jackson, Mississippi.  He is a 40 year veteran of four different Fish and Wildlife functions and has spent his entire career in the Lower Mississippi Valley.  He holds a BS in Forestry and a MS in Wildlife Management from the Louisiana State University School of Natural Resources.

Mr. Aycock has worked with carbon sequestration through reforestation on National Wildlife Refuges for over ten years with a number of different partners. Over 50,000 acres of marginal farm land on refuges has been reforested with native bottomland hardwood species that have resulted in improved habitat for neo-tropical song birds, black bears, and a host of other bottomland wildlife species.  Many of these plantings were initially experimental and led to many of the standards now used in USDA Conservation programs.