The Alabama Wildlife Federation is offering How to Develop & Sustain Your Outdoor Classroom workshops this fall.

If you are interested in starting a new outdoor classroom or renovating an existing outdoor classroom that you can use a living laboratory and sustain for YEARS to come, then you will want to attend this workshop! 

There is no cost to attend the workshops.  Lunch costs $10.

Each workshop will begin by 9 a.m. and end by 3 p.m. 

• September 27, Wheeler Wildlife Refuge in Decatur (Morgan Co.)
• October 24, Tuscaloosa Co. Extension Office (Tuscaloosa)
• October 25, Calhoun Co.

Summer only comes once a year - don't let a summer stroll in the great outdoors pass you by.  Come hike more than five miles of shady, senic trails at the ANC

 The Alabama Nature Center will be open to the public Saturday, August 18th  from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, August 19th, from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Alabama Nature Center, located at Lanark in Millbrook, Alabama, is a Planned-Use Outdoor Education Facility offering hands-on, outdoor-based educational programs and activities for students, educators, church and civic groups, and the general public

General Public Weekends are held every third weekend of the month.

For more information call 1-800-822-9453 or email awf@alabamawildlife.org

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today designated three National Water Trails in Alabama, Georgia and Missouri, committing to work with state and local partners to increase water-based outdoor recreation, encourage community stewardship, and promote tourism that fuels local economies.

“Restoring our nation’s rivers and expanding outdoor recreational activities on them is one of the major goals of President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative,” Salazar said.