SALT Helps Conserve Mobile County Habitats

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala — The South Alabama Land Trust (SALT) has announced that 12 parcels on Dauphin Island have been protected. In collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) funded the protection of a 9.4-acre parcel on Dauphin Island’s southern coast. While owned by The Town of Dauphin Island, SALT holds the conservation easement. The area includes critical beach and dune habitats and is considered a global birding hotspot. Through NFWF funding, Dauphin Island Bird Sanctuaries was able to purchase another 11 undeveloped land parcels, with SALT as the conservation easement holder. Additionally, SALT said that both the purchases for Brookley by the Bay in Mobile County of a 40-acre parcel within the Weeks Bay watershed have now closed and are officially protected, and SALT is working with Mobile County to place a conservation easement on almost 300 acres of forested wetland and uplands surrounding Halls Mill Creek.