WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel will be speaking at this meeting (PDF).
Douglas is in the Satilla River watershed, but WWALS’ Willacoochee River forms the border between Coffee County and Berrien County.
NOTICE:
SUWANNEE-SATILLA
REGIONAL WATER PLANNING COUNCIL MEETINGAnnouncement Date: May 28, 2015
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:
The Suwannee-Satilla Regional Water Planning Council is holding its next meeting
at the following date, time, and location: Continue reading
Update 2014-04-25 11:AM: Unfortunately the whole event has been cancelled.
Come hear from
Students Against Violating the Environment (S.A.V.E.)
about fossil fuel divestment
and other environmental issues, 1-4PM today in Drexel Park, NE corner of Patterson Street and Brookwood Avenue;
Facebook event. Rain location: University Center, just south of Brookwood.
WWALS will have Alapaha River Water Trail brochures, flyers for the Third Annual BIG Little River Paddle Race 2015-05-16 and other WWALS events, plus news about opposition to the Sabal Trail pipeline.
WWALS and S.A.V.E. have long been allied in opposing the Sabal Trail pipeline, and in proposing fossil fuel divestment. WWALS sent a letter to the VSU Foundation 18 October 2013 quoting S.A.V.E.: Continue reading
WG Bailey posted
a marvelous series of photographs
of
A Day in the Woods at Gaskins Forest Education Center
Saturday, including this picture of WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel.
-jsq
Update 2015-03-20: Two Hamilton County businesses donate prizes for logo contest –Jasper News.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
South Georgia talent won the Alapaha River Water Trail Logo Contest
Alapaha, Georgia, March 16th 2015 — South Georgia’s got talent! Winners from Tift County High School and Lanier County High School got cash and other prizes for their logo submissions at the Alapaha River Water Trail conference Saturday.
![[Maya Turner with her First Place logo]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2015-03-14--logo-winners/winner-and-logo.jpg){kind=logo}
Maya Turner with her First Place logo in Logo Winners, by Deanna Mericle, 14 March 2015
WWALS Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman invited everyone to discuss river etiquette
and private property and to see the prizes awarded to the high school logo contest winners at the
Alapaha River Water Trail Conference tomorrow,
and to go on the
river outing afterwards.
She spoke in Citizens Wishing to Be Heard at the Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 March 2015.
Here’s the video:
Continue reading
The Tifton Gazette today printed
the WWALS PR about the logo contest
and the conference tomorrow.
Winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and the winninglogos unveiled at the
WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Conference Continue reading
Update 2015-03-16: South Georgia talent won the Alapaha River Water Trail Logo Contest.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Prizes to high school logo contest winners Saturday at Alapaha River Water Trail Conference
Adel, March 10th 2015 —
WWALS Watershed Coalition will award prizes to high school student artists for first, second, and third place logo contest winners and an honorable mention at the Alapaha River Water Trail Conference this Saturday March 14th, near Alapaha, Georgia.
The winning logo will appear in an Alapaha River Water Trail brochure along with lists of prize contributors and Water Trail sponsors.
The afternoon’s festivities will conclude with an easy paddle outing on the Alapaha River.
facebook event.
The logo will be used on the Alapaha River Water Trail website, on promotional brochures, and on information at access points along the river that will be posted on kiosks.
Many thanks to the prize donors: Wild Adventures Theme Park, Hometown Handyman Chris Mericle, Camping World Retail Store, Dr. Bret Wagenhorst, Jasper Hardware, and Garry Gentry.
Winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and their logos unveiled at the
WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Conference Continue reading
4PM Saturday March 14th
at GA 135 in Berrien County near Willacoochee:
paddle upstream on the Alapaha River and float back.
The river will be higher than pictured here.
All are welcome, boats are available! facebook event.
This is immediately following the WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Conference being held at the Gaskins Forestry Education Center near Alapaha, GA from 1-4 p.m. Come see the high school student logo contest winners for the Water Trail, and then paddle on the Trail!
This event is FREE! All we ask is Continue reading
Thanks to Margaret Tyson. See also PDF. -jsq
Georgia
Adopt-A-Stream
Chemical and
Bacterial
Certification
Workshop
Reed Bingham State Park
Saturday
January 10th, 2015
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.This is a registration only event.
Register by calling
GOLDEN TRIANGLE RC&D
at 229-723-3841 or
Email j.shutters@yahoo.comTogether We Can Make A Difference Continue reading
Our Suwannee River tributary neighbors have joined other Florida watershed groups in forming a Florida Springs Council.
PR from the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, January 2014,
On December 4, 2014, seven representatives from various Florida springs advocacy groups “ Friends of Warm Mineral Springs, the Ichetucknee Alliance, the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, the Kings Bay Springs Alliance, Our Santa Fe River, Inc., Save the Manatee Club, the Wakulla Springs Alliance, and Withlacoochee Aquatic Restoration, Inc. (formerly Withlacoochee Area Residents, Inc.) “ met as the Organizing Committee for the Florida Springs Council. This ad hoc organization will be comprised of representatives from all Florida organizations that focus all or part of their group’s energies on springs issues and, by extension, issues that affect the Floridan aquifer that feeds the springs.
The Withlacoochee mentioned is central Florida’s Withlacoochee River, but of course WWALS’ south Georgia and north Florida Withlacoochee River has the same kind of springs. Continue reading