Earth Day

We celebrated Earth Day in April with a booth at the Earth Day Festival at Topsail Preserve.  We used our new display board to stage a game of identifying native flora and fauna, giving native plants as prizes to winners and not so winners.

Nancy James Scholarship

Each year SWCC gives a scholarship to a local school to assist in a nature based educational activity.

For 2009 that scholarship was given to Bay Elementary to purchase supplies for the "Grasses In Classes" program.

In a previous year, GPS units were donated to South Walton High School for use in mapping coastal dune lakes.

Wetlands Workforce

SWCC received a $10,000 grant to partner with Walton County for a facilitator on the Wetlands Workforce task group.

Environmental Summit

Seventy participants from more than thirty organizations attended an environmental summit at the Coastal Branch Library.  This summit was sponsored by SWCC