Grand Bay Acquisition
Implementing Organization
The Nature Conservancy
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$7,477,500
Known Leveraged Funding
$64,000
Funding Organization
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Funding Program
NFWF Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund GEBF
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Land Acquisition/Protection
Targeted Resources
Terrestrial Habitat
Project Description
Acquisition of approximately 1000 acres in Grand Bay adjacent to and between existing protected lands (Alabama Forever Wild program and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge) which houses a broad diversity of habitats including shell mounds, pine flatwood savannas, oak cheniers, coastal marshes and salt pannes that feed into the vast seagrasses and oyster reefs that dominate Grand Bay proper. Project will protect lands that support a diversity of wildlife, including black bear, coastal and wading birds, waterfowl, neotropical migratory birds, nursery habitat for coastal finfish and shellfish (such as speckled seatrout, redfish, Atlantic croaker, shrimp, blue crabs) and many threatened and endangered species, including the West Indian manatee, Mississippi sandhill crane, Mississippi diamondback terrapin, Gulf sturgeon and opossum pipefish.
Contact
Judy Haner251-433-1150
jhaner@tnc.org
Project Website
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
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