SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's Department of Conservation
plans to add about 500 acres to the rugged Walls of Jericho
preserve in the northeast corner of the state.
Alabama's Forever Wild land preservation program plans to use a
$640,000 federal Forest Legacy grant to buy land along Estill Fork,
a mountain stream west of the Walls. The stream is home to
endangered freshwater mussels.
The assistant state conservation director, Greg Lein, said
Forever Wild will also contribute about $300,000 toward the
purchase.
The land is currently owned by The Nature Conservancy, a
nonprofit preservation group working to protect the Paint Rock
River watershed in Jackson County.
The remote Walls of Jericho preserve is often called the "Grand
Canyon of the South."
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Published: November 15, 2009
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