FILE - In this April 11, 2004 file photo, a gopher tortoise lumbers across the forest floor at Reed Bingham State Park near Adel, Ga. The Conservation Fund and Open Space Institute announced Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, that they had bought a 16,000-acre site along the Satilla River east of Woodbine, Ga., which they described as one of the largest unprotected open space parcels along the southeast Atlantic coast.
“It’s providing a tremendous opportunity for the people of Georgia to enjoy our great outdoors,” said Andrew Schock, Georgia state director at The Conservation Fund. The new property is also home to an estimated 2,000 gopher tortoises, whose burrows provide shelter for many other species. Whitehead said the property is also remarkably pristine. There are no structures on it, and it has no development except for a well and cemetery, she said.The property had a timber mill in the 1870s that processed longleaf pine coming down the Satilla River, said Jason Lee, with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
I hope this conservation group will do what it said it was going to do and sell the land to the state of Georgia for use as a wildlife management area where people can hunt, fish and hike. Sometimes things change.
Cute
Good work Georgia.
Is it for the turtles and others ?
My name is Lonesome George
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