by Chad Hoffman | Oct 14, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Fish Guide, Fishing, Lakes
Did you know that Coosa Riverkeeper hosts a statewide toll-free hotline for fish consumption advisories? Even better, the hotline has now been updated to include the advisories in Spanish! The Alabama Department of Public Health, the state agency in charge of...
by Justinn Overton | Oct 10, 2022 | Advocacy, Events, Lakes, Opinion, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide, Wildlife
Dive into our Fall 2022...
by Chad Hoffman | Oct 5, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Lake Jordan, Lake Mitchell, Lake Neely Henry, Lakes, Lay Lake, Logan Martin Lake, Pictures, Science
The Problem: Too Many Nutrients When you hear the word pollution, what do you think about? Do you visualize people dumping their garbage and week-old food scraps into the river? Is it a discharge pipe, pumping suspiciously dark liquid into a stream of clear, untouched...
by Justinn Overton | Sep 29, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Fishing, Lakes, Opinion, Pictures, Science, Videos
Before the Clean Water Act was passed in 1972, waterways in the United States were severely contaminated by sewage, trash, oil, and industrial pollution. Since then, the Clean Water Act has dramatically reduced pollution and improved water quality across the country,...
by Abby Swain | Aug 19, 2022 | Advocacy, Education
Knowledge is power, and what better way to gain knowledge than to read a book (or 5)! We surveyed our staff and some of our board members to what conservation-minded books influenced their career or their opinion on our natural world. Check out what some of them had...
by Justinn Overton | Jun 13, 2022 | Advocacy, Education, Lakes, Pictures, Science, Swim Guide
Dive into our Spring Newsletter! Our 2021 Financials Nutrients on the Coosa Coosa River named 5th Most Endangered River in the US Meet our New Team Members Get the Skinny on Swim Guide 2022 Read our Newsletter Here! Have you seen our new video? It’s been in the...