FOLEY, Alabama — Following a plan to research rainfall in all the county’s 15 watersheds, commissioners agreed to move forward on a grant application this week to study the Bon Secour Bay and Wolf Bay watershed area.
via Baldwin plans second watershed study for Bon Secour, Wolf Bays | al.com.
NEW ORLEANS — A new study finds that Louisiana's second Gulf of Mexico dead zone stretches at least from the Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana to Alabama's Dauphin Island — and could be bigger.
via Second Gulf of Mexico dead zone stretches from Louisiana to Alabama | al.com.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge will be conducting free guided nature tours on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week starting on Jan. 31t 2012 and continuing until March 29.
via Free guided nature tours at Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge – GulfCoastNewsToday.com: Community.
SPANISH FORT, Alabama — A tiny tributary in Spanish Fort, a creek so small that a child can step across it, is about to get a makeover worth nearly a million dollars.
via Joe’s Branch tributary in Spanish Fort gets $1 million makeover | al.com.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Gulf Shores Beach Retreat and Ocean Camp, a certified marine/environmental education program hosted 29 Middle/High School students from Calvary Christian School in Orange Beach for a two-week fieldtrip program recently- ‘Water Quality in our Local Environment’.
via Calvary Christian students attend Ocean Camp in Gulf Shores – GulfCoastNewsToday.com: Local News.
As the Examiner has been reporting for over a year, the rate of dolphin deaths has been staggering. While WWLTV reports that there have been 630 in the course of two years — actually slightly preceding the Gulf oil catastrophe of April, 2010 — these do not fully account for the countless, unreported or underreported mammals who've perished.
GULFPORT, Mississippi — A nearly dead dolphin found in Alabama in November is recovering at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and yielding data that may help explain 630 dolphin strandings that have occurred in the northern Gulf of Mexico since February 2010.
via Rescued dolphin is yielding ’significant information,’ scientist says | gulflive.com.
GULF SHORES, Ala. – If you have old electronic equipment lying around that needs tossed, Saturday is the day to get rid of that junk and help the environment as well.
via Gulf Shores, Orange Beach participate in E-Cycling – GulfCoastNewsToday.com: Local News.
GULF SHORES, Ala. – If you have old electronic equipment lying around that needs tossed, Saturday is the day to get rid of that junk and help the environment as well.
via Gulf Shores, Orange Beach participate in E-Cycling – GulfCoastNewspapers.com: Local News.
MOBILE, Alabama – The next public meeting on this is Tuesday night from 6pm to 9pm in Gulf Shores at the Kaiser Realty Meeting Facility. This is a look at how officials plan on spending $57 million dollars on mostly environmental restoration projects. In Alabama there are two projects planned so far. One concerns dune restoration in Baldwin County and the other will build marshland around Portersville Bay in Mobile County.
FAIRHOPE, Alabama—The familiar sight of Brown Pelicans skimming above the waters of Mobile Bay and perching on piers along the Gulf Coast was not always a given.
“Pesticides like DDT threatened the Brown Pelicans future in the Southeast in the early 1970s,” Dr. John Borom, director of the Fairhope campus of Faulkner State Community College, said of the pesticide that may have damaged the species’ ability to reproduce and was banned in 1972. “Since then the population has increased.”
The shells from the plate of oysters you had to ring in the new year could be helping to provide cleaner waters and a new home to a variety of sea life.
via Volunteers build oyster reefs to help clean Bayou Texar | Pensacola News Journal | pnj.com.
GULF SHORES, Ala. — Little Lagoon Preservation Society (LLPS) invites members and the general public to attend a quarterly membership meeting Thursday, January 19, 5:30 p.m. at the Adult Activity Center in Gulf Shores.
The first 30 minutes (5:30-6) is an opportunity to mingle and enjoy refreshments with LLPS members, officers, guest speakers, and the general public.
via Little Lagoon group to meet Thursday – Baldwin County NOW
MOBILE, Alabama — Officials have scheduled a series of public meetings along the Gulf Coast to hear comments on environmental restoration projects in the wake of the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
via Public meetings in Mobile, Baldwin to discuss environmental restoration projects | al.com.
GULF SHORES, Alabama — Wind and water constantly change the 18 to 20 miles of sand dunes on Baldwin County beaches.
“The dunes are our first line of defense against any kind of storms any kind of wave action.” According to Brandan Franklin with the city of Gulf Shores, they took a beating during the BP oil spill. “With the number of access points a lot of our clean up crews have had to use a lot of our dunes have been destroyed.”
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama — More than half the fish caught Monday by Press-Register reporters in the surf off Dauphin Island had bloody red lesions on their bodies.
via Dauphin Island fish show up with lesions, BP spill link questioned | al.com.
SAND ISLAND, Alabama — Sand Island, Alabama’s newest landmass, has the only beach in the state guaranteed to be free of tarballs.
via Sand Island resurrected: Island is open to the public and tarball free | al.com.
GULF SHORES, Ala. – When Kelly Reetz, Naturalist at Gulf State Park, looks out of her office window, in her mind she sees troops of kids cycling through one of three venues of learning and activities.
via Gulf State Park has new Education Center – Baldwin County NOW
BAY?MINETTE, Alabama — The Baldwin County Commission is urging residents to discard their Christmas trees at designated sites through Jan. 9 to save landfill space and provide mulch for purchase.
via Save Baldwin County landfill space by mulching Christmas trees – Baldwin County NOW
(GULFPORT, Miss.) – Dr. Andy Norowski is using dental techniques to rebuild broken shell of an endangered sea turtle.
The turtle nicknamed “Rocky” is on the mend at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport.
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