Cahaba River Natural re-vegetation in the rip rap areas along River Trace Road

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The refuge is partnering with The Nature Conservancy in Alabama, Cahaba River Society, and Birmingham Botanical Gardens to aid natural re-vegetation in the rip rap areas along River Trace Road. Yesterday Paul Freeman (TNC), Randy Haddock (CRS) and Henry Hughes (BBG) and volunteer Jack Freeman helped refuge manager Sarah Clardy plant 350 black willow stakes, pawpaw & red maples seedlings and broadcast 2,000 sycamore seeds in a 150' long area to determine which species will be most successful and develop planting protocol. We will monitor the progress of these plantings through summer and hope to do a larger effort in the fall.

We also noticed quite a bit of natural re-vegetation already happening. Some of the species we identified were ash or box elder, sycamore and pine.



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