Today’s announcement of the planned Moon River Canoe Launch on the Cahaba River is a major step forward for the Cahaba River Blueway, which was supported last year by the Community Foundation. This unique collaboration among the Cahaba River Society, the Nature Conservancy of Alabama and the Alabama Innovation Engine aims to implement a series…
Alabama depends on The Nature Conservancy to protect its natural treasures, including the aquatic diversity in 18 river systems and along the beaches and marshes of the Gulf Coast. We also depend on the use of prescribed burns as a way to manage and restore our native forests. According to Keith Tassin, Director of Science…
From Roebuck to west Birmingham, from Turkey Creek to a pond on the property of Faith Apostolic Church, the EcoScapes created by the Southern Environmental Center are transforming sites across Jefferson County. The transformation is real and tangible, as workers replace litter with landscaping and make sculpture gardens out of brownfields. Since the creation of…
Last year, In 20 meetings across eight counties of central Alabama, the Freshwater Land Trust listened as hundreds of people representing more than 400 organizations mapped out the places that mattered to them — to you — to all of us. Starting this week, Land Trust staffers are reporting back on phase one of developing…