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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.