Coastal News Today | GA - Land Trust, Conservancy Add 100 Acres to Cannons Point
The acquisition includes some 35.7 upland acres and a little more than 63 acres of marshland, all funded by a $1 million U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grant and administered by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Conservation Section, and brings the protected maritime forest, tidal creek and river shoreline habitat to more 700 acres in size, according to a statement from the Land Trust. Protecting Cannon’s Point is something of a “labor of love for the land trust,” Susan Shipman, board chair of the trust and former director of the DNR Coastal Resources Division, sai...
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