Reviewed by: Cindy Hatcher
Sipsey Wilderness at 50: Alabama’s pioneering conservation efforts
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Fifty years ago, on January 3, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Eastern Wilderness Act into law.
Tucked inside the law was a newly-designated wilderness area in the Bankhead National Forest—a 12,000 acre parcel of land endowed with canyons and dozens of waterfalls called the Sipsey Wilderness.
Something you likely won’t find in history books is the story about the creation of the Sipsey Wilderness and how a five year campaign by early Alabama conservationists birthed the national Eastern Wilderness movement.
Check out our first story in a three-part series about Alabama’s Wilderness areas.
Sipsey Wilderness at 50: Alabama’s pioneering conservation efforts
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