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Jun.28.2021
Looking for that next adventure? If you live on the U.S. east coast, you may not have to look much farther than right in your own backyard.
There is a hiking trail that travels through 16 states, beginning at the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, ending some 5,400-miles away in Cape Gaspe’, Canada. It’s a trail that isn’t a trail but rather, a combination of seven east coast long-distance hiking trails that together form the Eastern Continental Trail or ECT.
Only a few hearty souls have made the entire trek on what the Sierra Club calls “a beast of a hike,” but you don’t have to upend your life for a year to experience the beauty and wonder of the trail. Instead, take a day or overnight hike on one of the many trails that make up the ECT – the Florida Trail, Conecuh Trail in Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, Alabama and Georgia’s Pinhoti Trail, Benton MacKaye Trail in Georgia, the iconic Appalachian Trail (A.T.), an
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Top 10 environmental stories of 2020 in Alabama
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
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Well, almost nothing. Here’s a rundown of the biggest non-COVID environmental stories in Alabama in 2020.
Longest North American snake breeding in Alabama again
Conservation advocates in the state celebrated a victory early this year, when biologists confirmed that the longest snake native to North America is breeding again in the state.
And what a snake it is. The eastern indigo snake used to rule Alabama’s longleaf pine forests as the apex predator, reaching lengths of up to nine feet, and feeding on copperheads and rattlesnakes.
The species is federally listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, but had been all but wiped out from Alabama until biologists began reintroducing the snakes captured elsewhere into protected longleaf forests in the state.