Franklin County has thrown its
support behind a program called the Northwest Florida Estuaries and watershed
project that is seeking to create comprehensive management plans for seven
northwest Florida estuaries including the Apalachicola.
The program is being spearheaded
by the Nature Conservancy – over the past two years the Nature Conservancy
along with county officials, researchers, and other stakeholders have held
meetings to identify and coordinate estuary management issues.
It hopes to use BP restoration money
to establish watershed projects for the comprehensive management, restoration
and protection of seven northwest estuaries from Pensacola to Wakulla County.
That includes the Apalachicola,
Ochlockonee and St. Marks estuaries.
Because the projects would go
beyond county boundaries, the nature Conservancy sent a resolution of support to
all 8 affected counties – and according to county staff all 8 approved the
resolution.
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