The Tifton Gazette carried the WWALS press release on Page 8A, Tuesday, January 15, 1013:
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Overwhelming majority of Americans want clean water and renewable energy –poll
A
new poll
says 94% want new energy balanced with clean air and water, 86% want to shift from coal and nuclear to wind and water power, and 79% are concerned about shale gas fracking affecting water quality.
-jsq
Veteran River Conservationist Gordon Rogers spoke to new WWALS Watershed Coalition
WWALS Watershed Coalition
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Veteran River Conservationist Gordon Rogers spoke to new WWALS Watershed Coalition
Adel, GA, 9 January 2013 — A local watershed group formed in June 2012, WWALS Watershed Coalition, invited Gordon Rogers, Flint Riverkeeper, to its first meeting of the new year to bring his experiences with the Altamaha, Satilla, and Flint Rivers to its conservation efforts on behalf of local blackwater rivers in south central Georgia.
Three newcomers, Garry Gentry, Dave Hetzel, Al Browning, Bret Wagenhorst, Gordon Rogers, Karan Rawlins, Gretchen Quarterman
Continue readingOur WWALS Watersheds
Update 2016-03-03: Please see Streamer on the Suwannee, Withlacoochee, and Alapaha.
Here in our WWALS watersheds
in south central Georgia,
instead of a single big river like the Flint or Altamaha, our many
small blackwater streams meander through cypress swamps and remnants
of longleaf pine forests. Tannin from oak roots produces the tea color
that is one of many attractive features of our streams.
Maybe you, like me, have trouble keeping track of the watersheds of the Willacoochee, Withlacoochee, Alapaha and Little River Systems. U.S. EPA has much useful information about every U.S. watershed. On the right is a map I got EPA’s My WATERS Mapper to make by clicking on a point near Valdosta (a point just north of Tifton also works) that was close to all three WWALS watersheds known to that Graphical Information System (GIS):
- Alapaha Watershed — 03110202
- Withlacoochee Watershed — 03110203
- Little Watershed — 03110204
WWALS at Reed Bingham State Park 2012-10-22
WWALS had a brief canoe and kayak outing at Reed Bingham State Park Sunday, led by Bret Wagenhorst. Heading out, and some coppices of native trees.
Big Little Water: Camera 1 Videos on the Withlacoochee by Tom Baird
Here are videos of
Tom Baird’s talk for
WWALS hosted at VSU by
Blazer Gardens,
about the
Y-shaped Withlacoochee, or Suwannee, or
Swithlacoochee,
from
the dry Paleo-Indian era 14,000 or more years ago
through
atlatls in the woodland period
and
Troupville queen city
through the
Ellaville log boom
to
current-day over-pumping of the aquifer.
Here’s a playlist.
Big Little Water by Tom Baird (camera 1)
Update 2012-09-20: Videos from Camera 1.
Here are some pictures of Tom Baird’s talk, about the Withlacoochee River yesterday, Little Big Water. Atlatl, roving rivers, ghost towns, artifact hunters, and more.
Big Little Water by Tom Baird 2012-09-11
Update 2012-09-13: Pictures from Camera 1.
Tonight at VSU Student Union:
Big Little Water – a survey of the history, geology and archaeology of the Withlacoochee River, with replica artifacts people can handle, and slides.
“I’ll also get into some of the current threats to the river and maybe we can get into a good discussion and Q&A.”
Website event and facebook event. Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing training with WWALS 2012-08-25
Students getting water from creek for Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing training.
Angela Bray of the Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC), assisted by Richard Battenn of SGRC and Al Browning, taught an Adopt-A-Stream water quality testing workshop Saturday 25 August 2012 in Valdosta.
Here’s a video playlist.
A few highlights:
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