Federal scientists offering free vegetation, expertise in effort to restore waterfront habitat, bolster shoreline
Thursday, November 13, 2008
By RYAN DEZEMBER
Staff Reporter
GULF SHORES — In hopes of hastening the recovery of waterfront wildlife habitat, federal scientists are offering property owners their expertise as well as hundreds of plants.
The program has been ongoing since Congress gave local U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service biologists $200,000 in the wake of 2004's Hurricane Ivan, said Rob Tawes, a supervisor at the service's Daphne field office.
Over the last two years the Fish & Wildlife Service along with state and local scientists have worked with about 175 landowners to restore storm-damaged salt marsh in Josephine, longleaf pine forests and Gulf-front dunes, Tawes said.
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