Lots of people studied the Suwannee Basin map to see where everything is, last year at the 2018 Alapaha Station Celebration. We’ll be back in a few weeks, at the first local festival WWALS attended.
The Enviroscape (in front of Gretchen) was popular. Continue reading
Here are Gretchen Quarterman and Dave Hetzel at Heather Brasell’s annual A Day in the Woods at the Gaskins Forest Education Center near Alapaha, Berrien County, Georgia.
At Heather Brasell’s annual outdoor event at the Gaskins Forest Education Center, WWALS will have a table as usual, thanks to WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel.
When: 1PM-5PM Saturday, April 21, 2018
Where:
Gaskins Forest Education Center
3359 Moore Sawmill Rd., Alapaha
What:
A Day in the Woods:
FREE Community Event Activities for all the family
Photo:
WG Bailey of Dave Hetzel at WWALS table, 2015-04-18.
The GFEC backs up to several miles of the Alapaha River on the Alapaha River Water Trail, and is itself an excellent example of native longleaf and riparian forest.
-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
You can’t use traditional models for the karst Floridan Aquifer; new and harsher pesticides are expected this summer; but you can help raise native species; and later this month you can go see many of them in Berrien County, plus WWALS monthly outings, the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail, and the Alapaha River Water Trail and some WWALS history.
Yeah, coming this summer, and they’re head-scratchers.
All this was at the quarterly WWALS public meeting, this one on Water, Agriculture, and Forestry at Valdosta State University, March 28, 2017.
Here are links to each WWALS video of each talk, with a few notes and a few extra pictures, followed by a WWALS video playlist. Continue reading
Thanks to Heather Brasell for organizing this annual outdoor event. WWALS will have a table there as usual, thanks to WWALS Ambassador Dave Hetzel. Come on down for this community event; learn something; maybe even get your feet wet!
When:
1PM-10:30PM Saturday, April 22, 2017
Where:
Gaskins Forest Education Center
3359 Moore Sawmill Rd., Alapaha
What:
A Day in the Woods:
Forest & Wildlife Activities for All the Family
Event: facebook
See also the PDF flyer, transcribed below. 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
The Gaskins Forest Education Center invites you to A Day in the Woods: Forestry and Wildlife Activities for All the Family, on Saturday, April 18 from 9 am to 3 pm.
Educators interested in botany, forestry, wildlife, hydrology, and geology may want to take this opportunity to come out on April 18th and see the potential for planning and carrying out future teacher-led outdoor classroom activities.
This is a free community event Continue reading
Help check the Alapaha River for deadfalls! Expert paddlers wanted; inquire within.
Update 2015-01-17: Some pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman and an outing summary by Bret Wagenhorst.
Meet at the Alapaha River boat ramp at the Hwy 82 bridge just east of the town of Alapaha at 09:30 AM. Boats and gear will be unloaded and some vehicles will be driven to the take out near the Gaskins Forestry Education Center south
of Alapaha to allow the shuttle. One vehicle will then bring the drivers back
to the put in and the trip will hopefully get started down river at about
10:00-10:15. Facebook event.
This event is FREE! All we ask is that you are a current member of WWALS Watershed Coalition. If not, its easy to join online today at /donations/. You do not have to be a member to come on this outing. If you like the experience, we recommend that you join to support the efforts of WWALS.
The trip may take 4 hours, but it may shorter or longer depending Continue reading
Plants in our watersheds and along our waterways affect everything from
water flow to absorption to water quality to esthetics.
This Saturday there’s a conference about that near the Alapaha River.
Annual Meeting, Coastal Plain Chapter, Georgia Native Plant Society,
November 15, 2014 Continue reading
Board meetings are open to the public.
Board members are listed in
www.wwals.net.
Draft Agenda
WWALS Board of Directors
7:00 PM Wednesday May 14 2014
at the Gaskins Forest Education Center,
3359 Moore Sawmill Rd,
Alapaha, GA 31622
Gate opens at 6PM.
- Call to Order, Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Heather Brasell may say a few words about the Gaskins Forest Education Center.
- Agenda Review: Additions and Changes
- Review and Approval of Minutes
- Past Meetings and Events Continue reading
![[with Gretchen]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-11-10--alapaha-station-celebration-pictures/20181110_143448.jpg)