The heroes behind Alabama’s wilderness areas: A historical look

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Wild Alabama volunteers at Dugger Mountain Wilderness trailhead (Wild Alabama / Facebook)

What do a President, scout, lawyer,  physician, congressman and educator all have in common? 

Folks like these supported campaigns to establish and expand wilderness areas in Alabama after the Sipsey Wilderness was created in 1975.

In our first installment about Alabama’s Wilderness Areas, we learned how a group of conservationists launched the national Eastern Wilderness movement and successfully established the Sipsey Wilderness.  

Between 1977 to 1999, they more than tripled the size of congressionally-designated wilderness in the state.

Now, let’s look into the wilderness heroes that helped preserve Alabama’s wildest places: the Cheaha Wilderness, Dugger Mountain Wilderness and a larger Sipsey Wilderness.

Check out our second story in a three-part series about Alabama’s Wilderness areas.

The heroes behind Alabama’s wilderness areas: A historical look

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Pat Byington
Pat Byington

Longtime conservationist. Former Executive Director at the Alabama Environmental Council and Wild South. Publisher of the Bama Environmental News for more than 18 years. Career highlights include playing an active role in the creation of Alabama's Forever Wild program, Little River Canyon National Preserve, Dugger Mountain Wilderness, preservation of special places throughout the East through the Wilderness Society and the strengthening (making more stringent) the state of Alabama's cancer risk and mercury standards.

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