Forever Wild has expanded Alabama’s State Parks from Huntsville to Mobile. Why it matters.

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View from Monte Sano State Park. (Ben Johnson / Hville Blast)

We all know what we think of when we hear “space” and “Huntsville” in the same sentence. But did you know there is another “space” program in The Rocket City? 

In fact, for years, its motto—“The Other Space Program”—was plastered on newsletters, newspapers, billboards and bumper stickers across the city. The name of the group that embodied that moniker? The Land Trust of North Alabama.

The title came from a partnership with Alabama’s Forever Wild program, where they expanded nearly a thousand acres of greenspace adjacent to and around Monte Sano State Park.

In our first installment about Forever Wild, we celebrated our favorite preserves across the state, including the Walls of Jericho in Northeast Alabama, the Black Belt and the Mobile Delta.

In the second story in our three-part series, we’ll learn how Forever Wild has expanded our state parks and why that matters.

Check out the entire first story at: Forever Wild has expanded Alabama’s State Parks from Huntsville to Mobile. Why it matters.

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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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