Mountain Longleaf NWR Photo Scrapbook

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Geoffrey G. Prosch, United States Army; U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions; & Deputy Assistant Secretary David P. Smith, Department of Interior

Mountain Longleaf
National Wildlife Refuge
A Project Assisted by Jacksonville State University's
Environmental Policy & Information Center

Dedication Scrapbook

The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge was dedicated on June 30, 2003. The establishment of America's 542nd refuge coincided with the centennial anniversary of the Nation Wildlife Refuge System. A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt declared Pelican Island, a five-acre island along the east coast of Florida, America's first federal bird reservation. Since that time, the National Wildlife Refuge System has grown to protect nearly 100 million acres of some of this country's finest wildlife habitat.

Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is another jewel in this network of lands for wildlife. This newest national wildlife refuge will protect the largest and finest remaining example of mountain longleaf pine ecosystem, and the only remaining old-growth mountain longleaf pine forest in the world.

Photo of Senator Jeff Sessions
U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions Photo of Pete Conroy
Pete Conroy, EPIC Director Photo of Steve Miller
Steve Miller, Refuge Manager

Photo of Robert Downing
RD Downing, Vice Chairman, Calhoun County Commission & JPA Photo of Senator releasing owl
Senator Jeff Sessions with Ann Miller releasing a rehabilitated barred owl. Photo of Heather Sawyer & Geoffrey Prosch
Heather Sawyer, Geoffrey Prosch, Steve Miller touring new refuge.

Photo of local journalists
David P. Smith, Geoffrey Prosch, Sara Clemons of the Anniston Star, Tony of TV24 (with camera), Bill Garland, Senator Sessions, Pete Conroy Photo of Shannon
Shannon with the bank Jim Marsh & the Cheaha Mountain Amphitheater

Dedication Scrapbook

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