Freshwater Land Trust

The Black Warrior Riverkeeper is awaiting a ruling from the U.S. Department of Justice to see wither an Alabama mining company will be responsible for cleaning up unpermitted wastewater leakage from a dam into local waterways.

Freshwater Land Trust (FLT) is thrilled to announce the acquisition of 366 acres on a peninsula situated at the confluence of the Mulberry Fork, Locust Fork, and Black Warrior River. The land, located in west Jefferson County, is covered in a forest of pines, sweetgum, and white oaks, with minimal invasive species on it.

Populations of an endangered fish have been found in new areas of a creek in central Alabama, upstream of where a dam was removed four years ago in an…