Unprecedented Gift Preserves 8,000 Acres of ‘The Land.....

[T.T.]

Unprecedented Gift Preserves 8,000 Acres of ‘The Land Between the Rivers’ in Alabama: ‘America’s Amazon.

When considering the great victories of America’s conservationists, we tend to think of the sights and landscapes emblematic of the West, but there’s also a rich history of acknowledging the value of the wetlands of America’s south.

These include such vibrant ecosystems as the Everglades, the Great Dismal Swamp, the floodplains of the Congaree River, and “America’s Amazon” also known as the “Land Between the Rivers”—recently preserved forever thanks to generous donors and work by the Nature Conservancy (TNC).

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[spice]

The area is filled with oxbow lakes, creeks, and swamps alongside the rivers, and they’re home to so many species that it ranks as one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, such that Reid often jokes that while it has rightfully earned the moniker “America’s Amazon” the Amazon should seriously consider using the moniker “South America’s Mobile.

Which leads me to question why they would allow the public to use it for recreation as much as possible.

[T.T.]

Spice that was my thoughts exactly.

[♣Emerald♣]

The money for the purchase was provided by a government grant and a generous, anonymous donor, along with $5.2 million from the Holdfast Collective—the conservation funding body of Patagonia outfitters.

Well done to the anonymous donor using their money for the preservation of 8,000 Acres of ‘The Land Between the Rivers’ in Alabama: ‘America’s Amazon.

[T.T.]

Emerald that is for sure well done to the person who donated the money.

[Kerri]

So generous of the donor along with the government money to preserve those lands.


Even places like the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota
(which Ernest Oberholtzer fought so hard to preserve)
have to deal with how many people are allowed to enjoy the area
and struggle with groups of people trying to make it possible to use motorized boats in areas.

[T.T.]

Kerri a lot of thought certainly would have to go into how people are allowed to use the area.