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Fort Payne, Ala. – Memorial Day weekend is the busiest weekend of the year at Little River Canyon National Preserve, and the National Park Service would like to give you
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A subterranean cave, a chilly river, the highest summit east of the Mississippiâthese destinations are all shivery oases on dog-day afternoons
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Can you even call yourself a Southerner if you donât spend at least a quarter of the year griping about the heat (and donât forget the humidity)? But during a season when the forecast seems permanently set to âscorching,â you can still find pockets of delicious coolnessâand we donât mean the blast radius around your air-conditioning vent.
16-year-old Garrett Southers is one of 10 people awarded the Eagle Award each year from the Alabama State Parks. He won the award from his Eagle Project with the Boy Scouts, where he installed five osprey nesting platforms around Lake Guntersville State Park.
The idea originally came from Michael Ezell, the naturalist for the park at the time, who suggested either that or re-painting and re-finishing his classroom. Southers liked the osprey idea better and decided to go forward with that project.
The osprey around the park had begun nesting in areas where they couldnât be easily viewed by visitors. These nesting platforms would hopefully allow park visitors to be able to see the bird and its nest.
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