Bama Environmental News - July 21, 2013 #415

Job Openings

Mobile Baykeeper Seeking Office Administrator

http://www.aansocial.org/job/administration-operations/2013-07-14/1129?offset=10&cat=23

Mobile Baykeeper Seeking Development Director

http://www.aansocial.org/job/development-fundraising/2013-07-14/1128?offset=10&cat=23

Auburn University Seeking Sustainability Administrator

http://www.ecojobs.com/jobs_details.php?sec=5A&AID=85505

Birmingham Zoo Seeking Marketing and Public Relation Manager

http://www.aansocial.org/job/marketing/2013-07-15/1132?offset=10&cat=23

Birmingham Botanical Gardens Seeking Development Director

http://www.aansocial.org/job/development-fundraising/2013-07-09/1115?offset=20&cat=23

Birmingham Botanical Gardens Seeking Education Specialist

http://www.bbgardens.org/careers.php

Alabama Forestry Commission Seeking Urban Forestry Coordinator

http://www.forestry.state.al.us/AFCEmployment.aspx

Alabama Wildlife Center Internships

http://www.awrc.org/Internship

BEN Picks

July 26th in Birmingham - Freshwater Land Trust 5th Annual Land-Aid at Avondale Brewery

http://www.freshwaterlandtrust.org/2013/06/fwlt-landaid-buytickets/

July 27th in Fairhope - Pelican Paddle Kayak and Canoe Race

http://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com/gulf_visitor_guide/article_f63e17f8-f086-11e2-93d4-001a4bcf887a.html

August 3rd in Millbrook - Alabama Wildlife Federation Wild Game Cook-off State Finals

http://www.alabamawildlife.org/news/?newsID=141

August 8th in Dothan - Southeast Alabama Water Symposium

http://www.alabamarivers.org/events/special-events/southeast-alabama-water-symposium-in-dothan/view

August 16-18 in Florence - Alabama Chanin's Studio Weekend Workshop

http://gardenandgun.com/article/alabama-chanins-studio-weekend-workshop

August 24 in Birmingham - Alabama Wildlife Center's Chirps and Chips Fundraiser

http://www.awrc.org/Chirps_and_Chips

Bama Environmental News and Commentary

Forever Wild to Add Public Land Along the Cahaba River in Shelby County

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2013/07/shelby_county_ready_to_expand.html

Forever Wild Multi-Use Trails Open on Old Cahawba Prairie in Dallas County

http://www.outdooralabama.com/news/release.cfm?ID=1159

Wildlife Tourism Tops $2 Billion in Alabama

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/07/wildlife_tourism_spending_tops.html

Public Service Commission Hearings - Articles and Commentaries

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/07/alabama_power_tells_psc_its_ra.html

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/07/alabamians_deserve_cleaner_ene.html

200 Environmental Activists Meet About Canadian Pipeline in Mobile

http://blog.locustfork.net/2013/07/more-than-200-pack-mobile-bay-conference-center-to-fight-tar-sands-crude-pipeline/

Protecting Alabama's Turtle Population

http://www.businessalabama.com/Business-Alabama/July-2013/Turtles-Taken-off-the-Alabama-Menu/

Union of Concerned Scientists Report: Power Generation Threatens Water Supplies

http://www.alabamarivers.org/press-room/media-relations/power-generation-threatening-alabama-water-supplies

Weeks Bay Foundation to Protect Underwater Ancient Forests

http://blog.al.com/live/2013/07/weeks_bay_foundation_hopes_to.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57592920/primeval-forest-discovered-deep-off-alabama-coast/

Alabama Wildlife Federation Governor's Conservation Achievement Award Winners

http://www.alabamawildlife.org/news/?newsID=143

2013 Auburn University Spirit of Sustainability Award Winners

https://sites.google.com/site/2013ausustainawardwinners/home

Nature Columns by Bill Finch on al.com

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/06/the_importance_of_being_fright.html

http://topics.al.com/tag/bill%20finch/index.html

Nature Commentaries by Whit Gibbons on the Tuscaloosa News

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/section/gibbonscolumns

2013 Spring Alabama TREASURE Forest Magazine Now Online

http://www.forestry.state.al.us/TREASUREDForests2013.aspx?bv=5&s=1

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BEN Picks

July 13th in Huntsville - Land Trust of North Alabama Jazz at Three Caves Featuring Tom Braxton

http://landtrustnal.org/tom-braxton-returns-to-three-caves-on-july-13/

July 26th in Birmingham - Freshwater Land Trust 5th Annual Land-Aid at Avondale Brewery

http://www.freshwaterlandtrust.org/2013/06/fwlt-landaid-buytickets/

August 8th in Dothan - Southeast Alabama Water Symposium

http://www.alabamarivers.org/events/special-events/southeast-alabama-water-symposium-in-dothan/view

2013 Calendar - Cahaba River Society Canoe Trip Calendar 2013

http://www.cahabariversociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CRS-2013-Canoe-Schedule.pdf

Alabama Power Foundation "Good Roots" Tree Planting Grant Program

http://southerncompany.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2876

The Green Register News - http://www.thegreenregister.com

"Lost Antarctica" Author UAB's Jim McClintock Enlists Actor Harrison Ford for Short Film

http://thegreenregister.com/e-o-wilson-biodiversity-foundation-and-actor-harrison-ford-team-up-to-produce-and-narrate-short-film-about-lost-antarctica-and-climate-change/

The Green Minute: Lions Club - Recycling Eyeglasses

http://thegreenregister.com/the-green-minute-lions-clubs-recycling-eyeglasses/

Alabama News & Commentary

FWLT: Moon River Canoe Launch - Cahaba Blueway

http://www.cahabariversociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Moon-River-Canoe-Launch-FWLT-press-release.pdf

CASE (Coalition of Alabama Students for the Environment): UAH Creates Green Fund

http://www.alabamarivers.org/press-room/headlines/uah-students-to-create-new-201cgreen-fund201d-for-energy-independence-savings

Birmingham News: ADEM Approves 50% Increase in Permit Fees

http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/06/environmental_management_commi.html

NRDC: Alabama Ranked 18th in Beachwater Quality

http://www.nrdc.org/water/oceans/ttw/al.asp

Red Mountain Park Receives Grants from Wells Fargo and the state of Alabama

http://media.alabama.gov/pr/pr.aspx?id=7947&t=1

EPA Awards Brownfield Grants in Monroe County and Sheffield, Alabama

http://www.greenenvironmentnews.com/Environment/Hazardous+Waste/E.P.A.+Awards+%24800%2C000+in+Brownfields+Grants+to+Cleanup+and+Revitalize+Communities+in+Alabama

ADEM: 5.6 Million Pounds of Illegal Scrap Tires Cleaned up in Holt, Alabama

http://www.adem.state.al.us/newsEvents/pressreleases/2013/HoltCleanUp.pdf

Alabama Department of Conservation: 74% of Snails in North America Imperiled

http://thegreenregister.com/study-74-of-all-freshwater-snails-in-north-america-imperiled/