Barges loaded with limestone are traveling hundreds of miles down Alabama’s rivers to Cedar Point in southern Mobile County, where the rock will be spread across the bay bottom to give young oysters a place to grow.
Tag: conservation
Coverage of conservation from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
Baldwin County
408-Foot Riverboat Casino Sunk Off Orange Beach Completes Alabama’s Big-Ship Reef Trio
The 408-foot Argosy VI, prepped in Bayou La Batre, was sunk 23 miles south of Orange Beach in 120 feet of water, completing a trio of large ship reefs alongside the LuLu and the New Venture.
Baldwin County
Coastal Alabama Lands $87 Million in Deepwater Horizon Money for Wetlands, Islands and Water Quality
Alabama will receive $87 million in RESTORE Act funding for coastal projects, including 100 acres of new wetland in upper Mobile Bay and replenishment of Dauphin Island’s West End and Grand Batture Island.
Mobile
Study Finds Mobile Bay Seawalls Harm Habitat and Raise Long-Term Costs
Researchers at the University of South Alabama found that the vertical seawalls lining much of Mobile Bay’s residential shoreline harm natural habitat and cost more to maintain than marsh.
Baldwin County
Baldwin County’s Jody Bishop Named Alabama ‘Judge of the Year’ for Protecting the Forests
Baldwin County District Judge Jody Bishop was named Alabama’s Judge of the Year by the state’s forest owners and forestry commission for his work prosecuting timber and woodland crimes.
Mobile
Russell Ladd’s ‘Delta Awareness’ Took Sunrise Rotary Into the Mobile-Tensaw Swamp
A twelve-minute film drawn from six decades in the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta was the program at the Sunrise Rotary Club of Mobile on Feb. 4, 2009, along with a warning about the delta’s decline.
Baldwin County
A Warning Beneath the Cheering: Scientists Questioned the Cost of Mobile’s Growth
As Mobile celebrated steel plants and tanker contracts in 2008, retired Dauphin Island Sea Lab director George Crozier warned that unmanaged growth could undo 40 years of hard-won water quality gains.
Bayou La Batre
Gill Nets in the Statehouse: A Bayou La Batre Lawmaker Faces Down a Conservation Campaign
The Coastal Conservation Association pressed Alabama lawmakers to ban commercial gill nets in April 2008. State Rep. Spencer Collier, the netters’ champion, wanted science and a voluntary buyout instead.
Bayou La Batre
The Gill Net Bill Ran Aground Between Bayou La Batre and the Sport Fishermen
A bill to outlaw commercial gill net fishing in Alabama’s coastal waters passed the Senate in a form the Bayou La Batre legislator said the House would kill, reopening a bitter fight over buyouts and blame.
Baldwin County
1,600 Tons of Rubble Became a New Fishing Reef in Mobile Bay
The Alabama Wildlife Federation built the Upper Wreck Reef between Mullet Point and the mouth of Weeks Bay, a 1.25-acre underwater structure of recycled rubble finished in time for Memorial Day weekend.