3 ways you can help protect Alabama’s wilderness areas

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Wild Alabama staff preparing to hike Cheaha Wilderness with Talladega College students. (Wild Alabama)

The job of protecting Alabama’s 42,218 acres of public wilderness belongs to all of us.

Between 1975 and 1999, three federal Alabama wilderness areas, Sipsey Wilderness, Cheaha Wilderness and Dugger Mountain Wilderness were designated and expanded.

When Congress established these wilderness areas, they committed to maintaining them as undeveloped, roadless, natural and forever wild.

How do you do that in today’s world?

In this, our third story in a series about Alabama wilderness, we learn how a forest protection group headquartered in Double Springs, called Wild Alabama, is working to protect our wilderness areas. We’ll share how you can get involved with their three leading volunteer stewardship programs.

Here is the link to the final story in a three-part series about Alabama’s Wilderness areas.

3 ways you can help protect Alabama’s wilderness areas

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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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