Bama Environmental News October 19, 2011 #368

Special in this Edition: Virtual Tour of the Weeks Bay Reserve, 2011 Alabama Fish Consumption Advisories (Listing), Alabama's Toxic Release Inventory 2010 (updated), Legacy's 2012 Mini-Grant & Competitve Grant Recipients Announced, Gov. Bentley Awards $1.4 million to 11 Local Governments to Cut Energy Costs, Freshwater Land Trust Darter Dash - October 22nd @ Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

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Environmental Education in Alabama Calendar

http://www.legacyenved.org/index.php/component/content/article/52-2012-grant-recipients-announced

Alabama Wildlife Rescue Center Calendar

http://www.awrc.org/Calendar

Virtual Tour of the Weeks Bay Reserve

http://www.weeksbay.org/tour/virtual_tour.htm?tid=1&pid=1

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Op-eds, Links, Audio and Videos

2011 Alabama Fish Consumption Advisories (Listing)

http://www.adph.org/tox/assets/FishAdvNR2011.pdf

Alabama's Toxic Release Inventory 2010 (updated)

http://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_broker_statefs.broker?p_view=STCO&trilib=TRIQ1&state=AL&SFS=YES&year=2010

Recycling in Alabama - Presentation by Gavin Adams - ADEM Chief of Materials Management Lands Division

http://www.cra2011.org/presentations/Gavin_Adams_AL.pdf

Alabama Interactive Map of Parks, Public Fishing Lakes, Forever Wild Tracts, Boating Access, State Parks, Wildlife Management Areas

http://www.outdooralabama.com/map/IntMap.cfm

News Across Alabama

Legacy's 2012 Mini-Grant & Competitve Grant Recipients Announced

http://www.legacyenved.org/index.php/component/content/article/52-2012-grant-recipients-announced

Energy Efficient Home on Mobile Bay Profiled

http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2011/09/energy_efficient_house_under_w.html

Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail to be Launched on November 17th

http://blog.locustfork.net/2011/10/piedmont-plateau-birding-trail-to-launch-nov-17/

Gov. Bentley Awards $1.4 million to 11 Local Governments to Cut Energy Costs

http://www2.alabamas13.com/news/2011/oct/17/bentley-awards-14-million-help-local-governments-c-ar-2564511/

Alabama Wants to Delay New EPA Clean Air Regulations

http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2011/10/11/alabama-wants-feds-to-delay-new-epa-regs.html

Events & Job Openings

Environmental Health Manager - Birmingham

Contact Info -careers@breathehealthy.org (email for job description)

National Wildlife Federation - Gulf Restoration Position

https://careers.nwf.org/ext/detail.asp?jobid=nwf2194-606016010-GA

Friends of Shades Creek Calender

http://www.shadescreek.org/

Alabama Master Naturalist Program - Alabama's Arthropods or Spiders, Insects and Other Bugs - October 20th in Auburn

http://www.forestry.alabama.gov/PDFs/AMN%20Flyer%20Alabama's%20Insects%20Oct[1].pdf

Bartram Trail Conference - October 21-23 in Macon, Georgia

http://bartramtrail.org/PDF%20files/2011regis.pdf

Freshwater Land Trust Darter Dash - October 22nd @ Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

http://www.freshwaterlandtrust.org/darterdash5k/

Coosa River State of Our Watershed Conference

http://cleanwaterpartnership.org/events/?eventID=188&date=10/13/2011

Owl-o-ween October 29th @Alabama Wildlife Center

http://www.awrc.org/Owl-o-ween

Building Communities Conference 2011 - Nov. 3rd, McWane Center in Birmingham

http://www.rpcgb.org/events/2011/11/03/building-communities-conference/

Moss Rock Festival 2011 - November 5-6

http://mossrockfestival.com/

City of Montgomery Electronics Recycling Event Nov. 18th at Patterson Field

http://www.montgomeryal.gov/index.aspx?recordid=853&page=28

Sierra Club Annual Retreat November 18-20 at Camp McDowell

http://alabama.sierraclub.org/2011-conference/conference2011.html

23rd Annual Nonpoint Source Conference - January 24th, 2012

http://www.adem.state.al.us/misc/2012NPSConference.cnt

Fresh Air Family Calendar

http://www.freshairfamily.org/calendarandevents.html

Alabama Hiking Trail Society - Calendar

http://www.hikealabama.org/calendar

Alabama Wildlife Federation Calendar

http://www.alabamawildlife.org/events/

5 Rivers- Alabama's Delta Resource Center Events

http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/outdoor-adventures/5rivers/events/

Renew Our Rivers 2011 Calendar

http://www.alabamapower.com/lakes/schedule.asp

Ruffner Mountain Calendar

http://www.ruffnermountain.org/activities/events-calendar.html

Wildlife Federation's Wild Game Cook-off Calendar

http://www.alabamawildlife.org/hunting/?pageID=58

Land Trust of Huntsville and North Alabama Autumn Ramble Schedule

http://landtrustnal.org/autumn-ramble-guided-hikes/