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U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Awards Conservation Partners
MEDIA
ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 2, 2006
Contacts:
Tom MacKenzie, 404/679-7291
WHAT:
Sam D. Hamilton, Southeast
Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, presents his
Regional Director’s Conservation
Awards. These awards are presented to individuals, government agencies,
businesses, and organizations that have made outstanding contributions
to wildlife and natural resource preservation.
WHO:
- Jack Elrod, Atlanta, Georgia,
writer and illustrator of the syndicated Mark Trail comic strip;
- Folkston,
Georgia City Council for the establishment of the Okefenokee Education
and
Research Center at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge;
- Huntington Beach State
Park, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, for contributions such as the
reintroduction and cultivation of the seabeach amaranth plant,
federally listed as threatened;
- Arthur R. Marshall Foundation,
Boynton Beach, Florida, for their support of the Arthur R.
Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge including the
restoration of cypress habitat;
- Dennis Duke, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville, Florida, who is responsible for
the
south Florida restoration plan;
- Lieutenant Mike Bloxom,
Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries,
Montgomery: State case agent in joint undercover Operation Snapper
investigating illegal trade in wild-caught freshwater turtles;
- Sona Chambers, National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia,
Fundraiser who led effort to raise $700,000 toward construction
of a $4 million aviary for the endangered Puerto Rican parrot;
- Gary and Sherri Brandon:
Conway, Arkansas landowners who donated lands to conserve the
threatened Ozark cavefish and endangered gray bat.
- Additional awards to Fish
and Wildlife Service employees throughout the Southeast.
WHEN:
Monday, May 8, 1 p.m.
WHERE:
Century Ballroom
Atlanta Marriott Century Center
2000 Century Boulevard (Century Center Office Park)
Atlanta, Georgia 30345
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