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!
Pre-registration is required by 12 p.m. CST Tuesday, March 8th. For more information and to register, visit alaudubon.org/event/2022-03-09. 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 [...]
The Socially Responsible Agriculture Project (SRAP) will be hosting a Zoom Meeting on Monday, March 14 from 7 pm - 8:30 pm. This call is to help explain ADEMs proposed revisions to the regulations and to offer assistance for those of us that are preparing comments. Join via Zoom: https://sraproject.zoom.us/j/83907031785?pwd=VVlsc2xKaU1tR0prRCtTSTNlR09Vdz09 Meeting ID: 839 0703 1785 [...]
Mobile Bay Green Drinks is returning on Wednesday, March 16 at Braided River Brewing Company!
Waste Sludge Public Hearing Thursday March 17 at 9:30am at ADEM's Central Office in Montgomery "to receive data, views, and arguments from interested persons regarding the proposed rules" You do NOT have to attend to comment! CLICK HERE for the public hearing information from ADEM, including the proposed rules and summary of reasons. CLICK [...]
There will be Bluegrass music on stage @ the park all day – Pine Mountain Blue Grass – We’ll have Historical Demonstrations, Vendors, Chuck Wagon Cooking over the open fire. Furnished Cabins, Self -Tours, Antique cars, plenty of good food, drinks, fun for the whole family. Cabin Tours – Assisted & Self Tours Look for [...]
Alabama Water Rally 2022 Reuniting for Clean Water in Alabama! In celebration of 25 years of the Alabama Rivers Alliance and 50 years of the Clean Water Act, we invite you to REUNITE with us at Camp McDowell March 25 & 26. After two years of virtual gatherings, we are so excited to get back [...]
Join Alabama Rivers Alliance, Coosa Riverkeeper, Advance Etowah and Gadsden-Etowah Film Group for the FREE & IN-PERSON screening of the Southern Exposure documentary films at the Pitman Theatre in Gadsden. Discussion and Q & A afterwards with: Nimblewill Nomad and Nathan Wright from THE LAST LAST HIKE Julie Lay from SOILED Justinn Overton and Senator [...]