This billboard has already been spotted on Bemiss Road in Valdosta.
Please join us at 7:30 AM Saturday 19 April 2014 on the Withlacoochee River between Valdosta and Quitman, to put in at Old Quitman Road on the Brooks County side (just south of US 84) and paddle past where the proposed Sabal Trail methane pipeline would cross the Withlacoochee River, Continue reading
Update 2015-02-12: See newer version.
New WWALS brochure, with new board and recent events such as the Big LITTLE RIVER Paddle Race.
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Brochure by Karan Rawlins for WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS).
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | PDF of event flyer |
Tifton, GA, April 17, 2013, WWALS Watershed Coalition brings Janisse Ray, a South Georgia naturalist and conservation writer to Tifton for fundraising, food and fun on Saturday May 11th at Blackshank Pavilion, 457 N. Carpenter Road.
A native to South Georgia, Ray writes about the places that are
familiar to us. She is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental
activist. Ray will read to us from some of her works which include:
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home,
Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf,
Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land,
A House of Branches,
Drifting into Darien: a Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River
and
The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food.
Ray lives and works on a family farm in southern Georgia.
Cost: Family Event $5-Individual/$10-Family
Update 2019-11-12: This is happening, as Naylor Boat Ramp.
WWALS Watershed Coalition
Adel, GA, 18 February 2013 — WWALS Watershed Coalition opposes closing Old State Road to Hotchkiss Landing at the Alapaha River, and proposes Lowndes County instead increase access and conservation of the Alapaha River by creating a park, which will also boost the regional economy.
The Lowndes County Commission will vote Tuesday February 26th on
closing the only public access to the Alapaha River in that county.
A regional watershed group, WWALS Watershed Coalition, suggests
instead that the county purchase land along the Alapaha to create a
county park with a boat ramp and trails to match the ones on the
Withlacoochee River in Langdale Park.
“A park would simplify maintaining the 100 foot natural vegetative buffer required by the state in a Protected River Corridor,” said Dave Hetzel, WWALS President. “It could even reduce potential liability to the county from Continue reading
WWALS in the Ocilla Star Wednesday 13 February 2013, scan by Cindy Leighton:
This is from the WWALS press release of 10 January 2013 that also appeared in Tifton Gazette 18 January 2013.
The Tifton Gazette carried the WWALS press release on Page 8A, Tuesday, January 15, 1013:
WWALS Watershed Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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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