Deadman’s Island Restoration Project- Gulf Breeze Receives National Grant Award
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
Heather Reed accepted the Deadman’s Island Restoration Project Five Star Bronze award at the Sam Nunn Federal Building in Atlanta Georgia.
The National Association of Counties (NACo) recently announced that the City of Gulf Breeze is a recipient of a 2007 Five Star Restoration Challenge Grant. NACo will award $134,291 in grants through the Five Star Program partnership to support 10 projects, located in 12 counties across the country to help implement locally-driven wetland and watershed restoration projects. The other partners that participate in the program are the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Wildlife Habitat Council, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds and corporate sponsor Southern Company.