Accession Number:

ADA566481

Title:

Marine Corps Support Facility-Blount Island: Integrated Natural Resources Program Successes

Descriptive Note:

Briefing charts

Corporate Author:

MARINE CORPS SUPPORT FACILITY BLOUNT ISLAND JACKSONVILLE FL

Personal Author(s):

• Kennedy, Shari
• Price, Robert

Report Date:

2011-05-12

Pagination or Media Count:

37.0

Abstract:

Mission The mission of Marine Corps Support Facility--Blount Island MCSF-BI is to plan, coordinate, and execute logistics efforts in support of the Maritime Prepositioning Ships Program and the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program, Norway. Blount island History Created as a spoil island for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredging in St. John s River in the 1960 s. Property turned over to the Jacksonville Port Authority JAXPORT to develop Eastern half of Blount Island sold to Gate Maritime, then acquired by the Marine Corps in 2005.

Descriptors:

• *ECOLOGY
• *ISLANDS
• *MARINE CORPS
• *MARINE CORPS FACILITIES
• *NATURAL RESOURCES
• ARMY
• BIRDS
• DREDGING
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
• HABITATS
• HISTORY
• INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
• INVASIVE SPECIES(FLORA)
• LOGISTICS
• MAINTENANCE
• MISSIONS
• PLANNING
• WETLANDS
• WILDLIFE

Subject Categories:

• Biology
• Ecology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE