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State park rangers on duty in times of calm and peril
Thankfully, with a few exceptions, Alabama State Parks remain open during the COVID-19 restrictions.
And as diligent as always, our park rangers are on duty...
Alabama’s outdoors provides solutions for social distancing
While Governor Kay Ivey and Dr. Scott Harris, Chair of the Governor's COVID-19 Task Force, work hard alongside other state, national and private enterprise...
Bassmaster Classic makes itself at home with ninth visit to Birmingham
You couldn’t blame B.A.S.S. CEO Bruce Akin if he lobbied to make Birmingham the permanent host of its flagship event – the Academy Sports...
2020 Bassmaster Classic brings in largest crowd in Alabama history
The 2020 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic, which was held for the 13th time in Alabama, shattered previous attendance records, B.A.S.S. officials announced...
WFF in spotlight, behind scenes at Bassmaster Classic
The Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division was both enjoying the spotlight and working behind the curtains during last week’s 50th Bassmaster Classic...
Southern Living ranks Gulf Shores/Orange Beach the South’s best beach town
Southern Living magazine published a ranking of the Southeast's best beach towns this week, and a pair of Alabama cities were jointly listed at...
Volunteers put muscle behind protecting the watercress darter
It doesn’t look like much from the road – just an unassuming tributary of a local creek that flows into a man-made pond in...
Conservation Advisory Board considers deer zones, turkey reporting
The first Alabama Conservation Advisory Board meeting of 2020 resulted in a wealth of good news and one disappointing statistic.
The good news included a...
Alabama’s red snapper season to open May 22; Fishing allowed on Mondays for first time
Alabamians angling to catch some red snapper can begin baiting their hooks on May 22 this year, per an announcement from the Alabama Department...
Red Eagle now among top shotgun ranges in South
When the 200 shooters in the Alabama 4-H State Shotgun Championship arrive in April at the Red Eagle Skeet and Trap Club on the...
Alabama House approves bill that would allow disabled veterans to purchase lifetime hunting and fishing licenses at reduced cost
The lower chamber of Alabama's state legislature passed a bill Tuesday that instructs the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to sell lifetime...
MRD hatchery spawning flounder for first time
Anyone who has fished the beautiful waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast in the past decade knows that one of the premier inshore species,...
Alabama’s first sandhill season in 103 years deemed success
Another warm winter left Alabama’s duck hunters frustrated, but those who were lucky enough to score permits for the first sandhill crane season in...
Plan to extend Jones Valley Trail excites Birmingham walkers, bicyclists
For years, bicyclists who’ve cruised through central Birmingham have looked longingly to the right as they rode east along First Avenue South past Sloss Furnaces...
Alabama’s oyster production makes a comeback
The high water in January that shut down the oyster season in Alabama has finally subsided, and the oyster catchers were recently cleared to...
Alabama’s Environmental Studies Center teaches more than nature
For the staff at Alabama’s Environmental Studies Center (ESC), one mission stands above all: to help others love nature as much as they do.
“I have...
Rain can’t dampen enthusiasm at Buckmasters Life Classic
The consensus was that the recent 2020 Buckmasters Life Classic event may not have been the warmest at around 70 degrees for the three-day...
Artificial reef teeming with life in Gulf of Mexico
An artificial reef created in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago appears to be teeming with life.
In 2016, two of Alabama Power’s retired boilers...
Three Alabama lakes get spruced up with ‘The Preserves’ recreation sites
Three new public recreation sites have been added at Lake Harris, Lay Lake and Lake Martin as part of Alabama Power’s “The Preserves.”
These areas consist of trails, gazebos, benches, interpretive...
First wild Eastern indigo snake found in Alabama in 60 years
Traci Wood admitted holding the snake almost made her come unglued. No, she wasn’t afraid of the snake she was holding. It was the...
Alabama hunter grants wishes for kids
Jeff Carter didn’t have a plan in 2011 when he started Pine Hills and Oak Hollars Child Classic, an organization that takes sick kids on...
Alabama Bass Trail 100 registration opens June 1
Tournament bass anglers who are ready to step up in competition need to mark their calendars for June 1, 2020, and set the alarm...
Fishing at public lakes to begin in February
Alabama's fishermen will be able to resume fishing on state-owned lakes beginning February 1, 2020, the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries division announced on Friday.
The...
Birmingham duo to become first high school team allowed to fish in Bassmaster Classic
BIRMINGHAM -- Grayson Morris and Tucker Smith, who have won back to back B.A.S.S. high school national championships, will be the first high school...