The Withlacoochee River in flood stage after 10 inches of rain, at the GA 122 bridge in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Here’s a video playlist:
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Alapaha River at Hotchkiss Landing, Naylor, Lowndes County, GA, 1 Feb 2013
Scouting for a potential WWALS outing (since scheduled for 16 February 2013, two WWALS board members and three local residents went to look at Hotchkiss Landing on Old State Road at the Alapaha River in Lowndes County. Here are a few pictures; we also have videos, some of which will follow.
Looking west (upstream):
WWALS in the Tifton Gazette
The Tifton Gazette carried the WWALS press release on Page 8A, Tuesday, January 15, 1013:
Veteran River Conservationist Gordon Rogers spoke to new WWALS Watershed Coalition
WWALS Watershed Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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
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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.
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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