The Kingfisher Rivers
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Alabama River
As one of the major rivers in the state for transportaion, the river was dammed to support this industry. The parts below Claiborn dam are the free-flowing part...
Beech Trees
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Bibb County Glades
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Black Warrior River Basin
The Black Warrior River derived its name from the famous Indian chief Tascaluza (Tuscaloosa) whose name is from the Choctaw word Tashka meaning "warrior" and Lu...
Blackwater Creek
Just west of Jasper lies one of the Crown Jewels of Alabama; a clear stream with a solid rock bottom, rapids, boulders and a great collection of plants and larg...
Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge
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Cahaba River
The Cahaba River is a free-flowing river known nationally for the diverse numbers of fish and mollusks. The Cahaba is The Crown Jewel of Alabama. It begins at t...
Camp McDowell
On a short early morning trip in May, the intense beauty of Clear Creek was over powering as I passed ferns unfolding and mountain laurel in bloom. Now add to t...
Chattooga River
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Chauga River
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Choctawhatchee River
We traveled the Choctawhatchee with Jim Godwin, from the Alabama Natural Heritage Program and Weezie Smith, a legend of a botanist who out did all of us camping...
Chunky River
One of the major tributaries of the Pascagoula located near Meridian, MS. A deep woods river filled with the sounds of yellow billed cukoos and chain saws....
Cohutta Wilderness
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Coosa River
The last free-flowing section of the Coosa River is below Jordon Dam near Wetumpka. For about six miles this stream is a hint of a once great river - flowing ov...
Cumberland Island
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Dauphin Island
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Ding Darling Birds
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Dugger Mountain
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Econfina Creek
My trip on Econfina Creek was December 15th in the late 1990s. The Northwest Florida Water Management Authority had wisely purchased the watershed to secure a c...
Escatawpa River
The Escatawpa River is without a doubt, one of the crown jewels of Alabama with huge white sand beaches and clear tanic black water. A botanists heaven. We padd...
Flint River
Beginning under that Hartfield Airport, the Flint River flows through an historical part of Georgia still filled with an abundance of wildlife. The waters are f...
Grand Bay Savanna
These long leaf pine savannas once covered the southern part of the state, the last large remnant has been secured by the Nature Conservancy. It will be managed...
Gulf Islands National Seashore
These barrier islands stretch from Mississippi to Florida. Filled with ospreys, alligators and raccoons as well as diverse plant communites of live oak maritime...
Hatchett Creek
Almost the entire drainage system of Coosa County and one of the cleanest streams in the state - the creek is a joy for paddlers, botanists and birders. The geo...
Hurricane Creek
In Tuscaloosa County lies the last canyon stream in Alabama before the Coastal Plain. At this geological juncture Hurricane Creek flows through cliffs and steep...
Little River Canyon
Cutting through the crust of the earth this river forms the deepest canyon east of the Mississippi and is the only river that begins and ends on top of a mounta...
Locust Fork
Once proposed as a Wild and Scenic river, Locust Fork met a very high criteria for beauty. This means nothing till you see it for yourself. The challenge is get...
Longleaf Pine Forest
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Okatoma Creek
Another major tributary of the Pascagoula with a surprising number of rapids for a flat part of Mississippi....
Paint Rock River
This valley is a priority target for The Nature Conservancy because of the vast number of species of fish, mollusks, fresh water snails and plants that habit th...
Pascagoula River
The finest bottomland hardwood river swamped preserved in the South. We traveled the Pascagoula in the summer of 1993 with my son Bill Maynor, who was eight at ...
Pea River
Traveling down the Pea in early spring with the wild azaleas blooming and the cypress just turning green is a hint of the wonder of the diversity of this state....
Pisgah Gorge
One of the many gulfs that are carved in Sand Mountain as streams head toward the Tennessee River. Pisgah Gorge happens to be one of the more spectacular geolog...
Sipsey River Swamp
As the Black Warrior flows south of Tuscaloosa it completely changes character as it enters the coastal plain, giving way to a wide meandering stream with swamp...
Soquee River
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Splinter Hill Bog
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Tallapoosa River
Beginning in Georgia the controversy for this once great river starts early, as the site of the first dam to supply water to full the growth of Atlanta and the ...
Tallulah Gorge
Once famous for its beautiful falls that were captured to supply power to the city of Atlanta, it is now a state park where one can walk the river bottom and se...
Tennessee River
I grew up in the Tennessee River Valley riding horses on the Wheeler Wildlife Refuge and traveling up and down the river by boat near Decatur. There is nothing ...
Tensaw Delta
One of the wildest, most wonderful places in this state that pulses with life. Waters from two thirds of this state flow down through the Tensaw Delta, with the...
Terrapin Creek
A beautiful stream in Clebourne County that geologically does not look like it should even be there. It backs up to Dugger Mountain Wilderness, lies within the ...
Tombigbee River
Once the site of the first capitol of Alabama in St Stephens and described in the Travels of William Bartram, the Tombigbee has suffered mightily from the heavy...
Turkey Creek
In Jefferson County near Pinson lies the last remnants of a series of beautiful clear streams flowing over solid rock bottoms. The good news is that the Black W...
Walls of Jericho
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West Fork of the Sipsey River
This is the only Wild and Scenic River in Alabama. It flows through the Sipsey Wilderness area in the Bankhead National Forest. I have always wondered what a ri...
Wolf River
One of the crown jewels of gulf stream rivers with huge white sane beaches and a strong black water current. Bob Fairbank envisioned a conservation easement on ...
Yellow River
The Yellow River river begins in Alabama but is technically in Florida, however, the state of Florida is only one county wide at this point and so we are just g...