BEN - Bama Environmental News

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Bama Environmental News - #328




News


New York Times Features Alabama's War on Cogongrass - In September, the New York Times featured a story on state of Alabama's "war on cogongrass" an invasive weed that threatens forestry and agriculture in the state. Check out the story here


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/us/21land.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/21/us/20090921-LAND_index.html


Forever Wild and Wildlife Management Areas - For people who care about wildlife management areas and public hunting lands, the latest edition has some interesting figures about Forever Wild and WMA's. Here is an excerpt:


"Since 1992, Forever Wild has secured 183,603 acres of public hunting lands that are part of the Alabama WMA system. These lands are distributed within 13 WMA's in 12 counties."


Some of the Forever Wild WMA's include:


Barbour WMA (26% owned by Forever WIld)

Cahaba WMA - (79% owned by Forever WIld)

Coosa WMA - (26% owned by Forever Wild)

Crow Creek WMA (8% owned by Forever Wild)

Freedom Hills WMA (75% owned by Forever Wild)

Laudedale WMA (31% owned by Forever Wild)

Lowndes WMA (15% owned by Forever WIld)

Mobile-Tensaw Delta & W.L. Holland WMA (11% owned by Forever Wild)

Mulberry Fork WMA (100% owned by Forever Wild)

Perdido River WMA (100% owned by Forever Wild)

Riverton WMA (100% owned by Forever Wild)

Skyline (James D. Martin) WMA (39% owned by Forever Wild)

Upper Delta WMA (100% owned by Forever Wild)


Recycling Grants - ADEM & Governor Riley have awarded eight recycling grants totaling $1.1 million.

http://www.adem.state.al.us/PressReleases/2009/GovRileyHighlightRecycling.pdf



Perry County Coal Ash Landfill Challenged - Environmental attorney David Ludder has filed suit to halt the coal ash shipments to Perry County.

http://blog.locustfork.net/2009/11/21/attorney-demands-halt-to-tva-coal-ash-shipments/#comments


A Tagged Manatee Named BAMA - Here is a great Mobile Register story about Alabama's first "tagged" manatee and the new Mobile Manatees Sighting Network program at Dauphin Island.

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/11/rescued_manatee_named_bama_hea.html

http://manatee.disl.org/



Events


ADEM Nonpoint Conference - January 20th in Montgomery - Details - http://www.adem.state.al.us/Education%20Div/Conference/2010/10NPSConference.htm


Alabama Rivers Alliance Watershed Leadership Conference

http://www.alabamarivers.org/


EEAA Conference

http://www.eeaa.us/content/view/89/1/


Christmas/Holiday Gift Ideas


Weeks Bay Foundation - http://www.weeksbay.org/shopping_cart.htm

Alabama Wildlife Federation - http://www.alabamawildlife.org/news/?newsID=18

Alabama Coastal Foundation - http://www.joinacf.org/merchandise.html

Land Trust of Huntsville and North Alabama - http://landtrust-hsv.org/?p=561

Black Warrior Riverkeepers - http://blackwarriorriver.org/shop.html

Higher Ground Roasters - http://www.highergroundroasters.com/

Legacy - http://www.legacyenved.org/products/products_main.htm

Department of Conservation -

https://www.alabamainteractive.org/shoppingcart/cgi-bin/shopdcnr.cgi?store=2

Alabama Museum of Natural History

http://www.ua.edu/academic/museums/history/wordpress/?page_id=152


Links/Publications


Leading Scientific Organizations Position on Climate Change Letter

http://www.ametsoc.org/sss/documents/climateletter.pdf

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