FLFR is committed to helping to keep Blount County beautiful and clean!! We are hosting a series of deep clean ups in the months of February and March. In a deep clean, we are able to get to places that are covered with briers and brush during the summer and fall months. Litter cleanups bring [...]
As part of Sidewalk's inaugural Black Lens Film Week programmed by T.Marie King Black Lens Film Week aims to shine a light on some of the most outstanding feature narrative and documentary films produced by and starring people of color. The Black Lens Film Week will highlight new innovative films and celebrate some familiar classics [...]
Please join us Tuesday, February 22 at 5:30pm in the first floor meeting room of the Main Branch of the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library for the February meeting of the Huntsville Chapter of the Alabama Archaeological Society! Archaeologist Sharon Freeman will give a talk titled "The Cherokee Nation in Northeast Alabama".
We're so excited to be Making Waves in Environmental Education! Register today for the 2022 EEAA conference at, Gulf State Park Learning Campus in Gulf Shores Alabama February 24-26, 2022. Click here to learn more and register.
Water is Life: Waste Sludge Update with Barry Brock (SELC), Julie Lay (Alabama Waste Sludge Awareness) and Doris Cellarius (Sierra Club). Waste in the form of sludge generated from industries like poultry processing plants and wastewater treatment plants is being sprayed on farm fields and property across Alabama and touted as beneficial use. This sludge [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST on Monday, February 28th. For more information and to register, visit alaudubon.org/event/2022-03-01. 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 [...]
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST on Friday, March 4th, and space is limited. For more information and to register, visit alaudubon.org/event/2022-03-05. The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a lush, sixty-seven-acre park that houses thirty separate garden installations, numerous water features, and a vast array of native plant life, much of which is of interest and [...]
Come make the Grand Staircase even grander by creating a native garden at King's Bend Scenic Overlook. Depending on the season join Jennah Gilley and other volunteers to plant, weed, add compost, mulch, pull invasive plants (like Privet and Kudzu) or terrace the slope to prevent erosion with logs and soil. Bring drinking water, a [...]
Join Black Warrior Riverkeeper and our Birmingham-Southern Urban Environmental Studies Interns for a litter cleanup on Saturday, March 5 from 10:00 - 12:00 at E Thomas/Dorothy Spears Park! We’ll bring the supplies, we just need you to come and help us cleanup our watershed! What we encourage volunteers to wear/bring: 1. Comfortable clothing that you [...]
Meet in the gravel parking lot just past the main gate at 12:45 pm. We'll head out at 13:00. Hike will be moderate and around 3 miles. See the Friends Of Turkey Creek Nature Preserve Facebook page for updates. The hike is FREE!