Downstream: A Virtual Concert Benefiting Tennessee Riverkeeper
Enjoy performances by an all-star lineup while supporting clean water in your community.
Enjoy performances by an all-star lineup while supporting clean water in your community.
Water is Life: Riparian Forests with Michelle Blackwood & Henry Hughes (Friends of Shades Creek). There are many ways to protect a watershed, but one of the most effective ways is to protect the forest that surrounds it, known as a riparian forest. Friends of Shades Creek began in 1998 with a campaign to protect [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST Tuesday, February 23rd, and space is limited. Birding in Alabama is a seasonal feast. In spring, neotropical migrants from Central and South America make the perilous trip across or around the Gulf of Mexico, headed north. Some pass through Alabama on their way to the northern US and [...]
Useful Plants and Mushrooms of Winter (1.5 hours / Easy / 1 mile) Winter is not often associated with an abundance of wild plants and fungi to find in the wild, but there is still so much to find! Join local forager, Jesse Akozbek, to learn more about useful plants and mushrooms that can be found [...]
Whitewater Paddling in Alabama with Alabama Cup Racing Association, Birmingham Canoe Club, Friends of the Locust Fork River and Stream Beam. Alabama is a little known whitewater paddling hot spot, especially for those who like the excitement of paddling in natural free-flowing streams. As a sport, the Alabama Cup is a coveted award to paddlers [...]
Join Jessie Griswold to hear about the second leading cause of bird deaths in North America. Using data collected through window collision monitoring in Birmingham during migratory seasons in 2018 and 2019, we’ll learn why birds fly into glass and examine a variety of solutions you can do at home that are inexpensive, simple to [...]
Our friends at Dynamite-Hill Smithfield Community Land Trust host a fresh market every other Saturday at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Spring Ephemeral Photography Workshop (>1 mile / easy/ 2 hours) Whether you have a fancy DSLR or just a smartphone, improving your wildflower photography is something that everyone can do! Join Jesse Akozbek, photographer and forager with Feral Foraging, for a workshop on taking better photos of wildflowers during the Spring Ephemeral Wildflower season. This [...]
Wade Mountain Naturalist Hike (3+ hours / Difficult due to elevation change / 4 miles) Head out on the trail with Madison County Schools STEM Coach Tim Gels on an exploratory hike of all things nature! Tim’s expert knowledge will open our eyes to the often-overlooked wildlife that thrives at the top of Wade Mountain. [...]
Spring is just around the corner, and that means bird migration will soon be under way. Join Drew Haffenden for this two-week course designed to bring you either up to speed, or to refresh your dusty memory from a year ago, in identifying migrating shorebirds. Many of us are used to seeing breeding-plumaged birds for [...]