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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you for that update, Rebecca. Jim G.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Green <green-bounces@fuusm.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rebecca Phillips via Green<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 9, 2020 1:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> Green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues <green@fuusm.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Rebecca Phillips <bennphil@hotmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Green] Turkey Creek Follow-Up<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Hello, all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>After today's discussion, I looked up Turkey Creek and discovered that there is a formal plan in place, money has been secured, and a contractor has been selected. REALLY slow, but progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>BTW, I misread: the watershed project covers 30,000 acres, not 300,000. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><a href="http://ltmcp.org/turkey-creek-watershed/" title="http://ltmcp.org/turkey-creek-watershed/">Project Description</a> from the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>The <a href="http://ltmcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/final.TurkeyCreek.WIP_.pdf" title="http://ltmcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/final.TurkeyCreek.WIP_.pdf">implementation Plan</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>2015 <a href="https://www.nfwf.org/sites/default/files/gulf/Documents/ms-turkey%20creek-15.pdf" title="https://www.nfwf.org/sites/default/files/gulf/Documents/ms-turkey%20creek-15.pdf">grant</a> from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>2018 <a href="https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Turkey-Creek-PPT-2.27.2018.pdf" title="https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Turkey-Creek-PPT-2.27.2018.pdf">presentation</a> by the MS Department of Environmental Quality<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>2019 brief progress report from the DEQ: </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:#F7F7F7'>Budget:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:#F7F7F7'> $6.1 million total / $1,442,000 expended through December 2019</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'><br><br><b><span style='background:#F7F7F7'>Description:</span></b><span style='background:#F7F7F7'> This project seeks to conserve important habitat and enhance water quality in the 30,000- acre Turkey Creek watershed through habitat and stream conservation and restoration. The Turkey Creek watershed encompasses a mix of rural and urban land use areas in greater Gulfport and has significant ecological and recreational value. However, the watershed faces development pressures that threaten its ecological benefits. The project will use fee simple land and easement acquisition, focused in the lower reaches of the Turkey Creek watershed, to protect key wetland and riparian habitats. Restoration on these and other previously protected lands will include hydrologic restoration of wetlands, riparian buffers, invasive species management, debris removal and stream bank stabilization. The restoration efforts will maintain and improve water quality, and floodwater storage capacity, and will enhance the hydrologic connectivity of Turkey Creek to Bernard Bayou and the Back Bay of Biloxi.</span><br><br><b><span style='background:#F7F7F7'>Progress:</span></b><span style='background:#F7F7F7'> The Land Trust of the Mississippi Coastal Plain (the Land Trust) finalzed the baseline survey of properties along the creek.The Land Trust continues to treat invasive species on properties currently owned by the Land Trust along the creek. The Corps Network continues to the provide the work crews to treat invasive species on the properties owned by the Land Trust. USGS continues to maintain and monitor the water quality monitoring station located in the creek.</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id=Signature><div><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>