Please join your neighbors for the Mulga Loop Road Little Clean Up which takes place along Mulga Looop and surrounding roadways. This event is focused on removing litter from along roadway to prevent it from being washed by rain or carried by wind into Village Creek and Bayview Lake and becoming pollution. For more [...]
Join the Friends of the Locust Fork River for a poetic spring hike! Please register in advance! Saturday morning in March when wildflowers are starting to bloom and the creek’s rumbling sound calms our minds, join us for this easy to moderate hike. During the hike, we will pause to reflect and to record our [...]
Join the Old Cahawba Archaeological Park- Alabama Historical Commission for a one-hour walking tour on the grounds of Castle Morgan, Cahaba Federal Prison and the Crocheron Columns where you will hear the accounts of soldiers from both the Confederate and Union armies who called Cahawba home during wartime. Participants will learn about the waning days [...]
Join Cahaba River Society for a Guided Canoe Trip! Grants Mill to Old Overton is the most popular section of the Cahaba for paddling due to its beauty, ease of access, and proximity to Birmingham. For the Grants Mill to Old Overton trip, meet Cahaba River Society at the Grants Mill access 1.1 miles east [...]
Alabama Water Watch Monitoring Training in Cullman - Registration is required! **This registration is for new monitors seeking certification who will go through the Online Courses and participate in an in-person Field Day. If you are seeking recertification, please contact the Alabama Water Watch Office.** Training Description: Become a certified Volunteer Monitor through this hybrid [...]
This two-day conference last occurred in 2019. We are excited to reprise it with plenty of new additions…including a keynote address from James Spann! On April 6-7, 2023, AWI will host its 2023 Symposium here on campus at The University of Alabama. It will have a theme of H2O R20: Water Research to Operations, and [...]
Rivers of Alabama Day is the second Tuesday of April, as designated by the Alabama legislature in 2007. Alabama Rivers Alliance hosts our annual Lobby Day on this day because talking to our elected officials is a critically important way to #DefendRivers! ARA staff and our partners at Conservation Alabama and Coosa Riverkeeper have been preparing [...]
Green Initiative, a sustainability organization at UAB driven to educate students on environmental issues and to provide opportunities to create change through service and activism, are planning to protest outside the Alabama Power headquarters this Friday, April 14th from 1 to 3 pm. The primary goal is to bring awareness to the unfair solar tax [...]
Save the date for the Cahaba River Society’s second annual Spring BioBlitz! This free, family-friendly Conservation and Education Event – led by some of the region’s premiere nature and wildlife experts – is a chance for people from all backgrounds to be introduced to citizen science and safe recreation in the outdoors, while participating in [...]
About the Cahaba River Ramble Trail Race The Cahaba River Ramble Trail Race is a spectacular 5k and 10-mile trail race along the “biological heart” of Alabama’s longest remaining free-flowing river, the Cahaba, and is the primary annual fundraiser for our Shane Hulsey CLEAN Environmental Education Program. Located in the Cahaba River Park in Shelby County, [...]