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Altamaha River Lands in Conservation (chronological, number of acres) Altamaha Wildlife Management Area, 1957, 1959 12,478 Bullard Creek wma, 1961 8,442 Wolf and Egg Islands (Savannah Refuge), 1969 4,572 Big Hammock Natural Area, 1972 801 Lewis Island Natural Area (Altamaha wma), 1972 5,633 Big Hammock wma, 1973, 1989 5,566 Altamaha Waterfowl Management Area–Phillips, 1973 730 Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation, 1974 1,268 Altamaha-Rayonier Area (Altamaha wma), 1977 1,331 Cathead Tract (Altamaha wma), 1982 1,021 Cathead Creek, 1992 752 Audley Farms Tract (Altamaha wma), 1994 324 Griffin Ridge wma, 1996 5,616 Long County dot Mitigation, 1996 1,300 Carr’s Island, 1996 367 Montgomery dot Mitigation, 1997 898 Potosi Island (Altamaha wma), 1998 1,945 Tillman Tract (Big Hammock wma), 1998 581 International Paper & The Timber Company Conservation Easement, 2000 1,223 Long County dot Mitigation, 2000 3,970 Moody Forest Natural Area (dnr/tnc owned), 2000 4,368 Penholloway Swamp wma, 2005 4,270 Clayhole Swamp wma, 2005 5,243 Townsend wma Conservation Easement to dnr, 2006 4,345 Townsend wma, 2006 2,369 Penholloway Trade Lands Conservation Easement, 2006 373 Penholloway Trade Lands Conservation Easement, 2006 313 225 altamaha river lands in conservation The Lost 1,000 llc Conservation Easement, 2006 1,010 Williams Trust Tract—Townsend wma, 2007 202 ip-Townsend Bombing Range—dot Tract 1,709 Ft. Barrington/Long Branch Farms cbt Tract, 2007 385 ip-Townsend Bombing Range—usmc Easement, 2008 10,687 Ft. Barrington/Long Branch Farms Tract, 2008 4,162 Ft. Barrington Club Conservation Easement, 2008 1,359 Murff Tract, 2009 & 2010 14,091 Walker Lake, part of Townsend Wildlife Management Area, 2011 1,080 total 114,784 This list includes only land protected in the immediate Altamaha River corridor and not elsewhere in the watershed. Many thanks to The Nature Conservancy for completely funding and managing some of these tracts, and for assisting in the protection of the majority of the others. This list was compiled by the Altamaha Bioreserve Project of The Nature Conservancy of Georgia, especially Christine Griffiths, Christi Lambert, and Alison McGee. ...

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