Alabama enjoys the distinction of having the most diverse varieties of trees in the US! It is lush and green and beautiful from state line to state line without being overly stressful in geography or weather. For me, Alabama truly has been God’s country. It has nurtured my heart, mind, and health. In the 4th grade Alabama history class in Clayton, AL we did a class play about Alabama. I wore a sash that proclaimed “Alabama Rivers” and I had to recite all the rivers in the state! I remember the event. I do not remember all the rivers!scott Peek wrote an informative social media post about Alabama that blessed me!
CBByrd 7/5/25)
“Did you know ? ALABAMA is America’s Amazon!
“Hidden away in the heart of the Deep South, one of the nation’s greatest wildernesses is being destroyed, bit by bit, in a silent massacre.
There are more species of oaks on a single hillside on the banks of the Alabama River than you can find anywhere else in the world. The Mobile River Basin makes Alabama home to more species of freshwater fish, mussels, snails, turtles and crawfish than any other state. The contest isn’t even close.
For instance, Alabama is home to 97 crawfish species, while California, three times the size of Alabama, has but nine. There are 450 species of freshwater fish in the state, or about one-third of all species known in the entire nation. The system’s turtle population is even more singular. The Mobile-Tensaw Delta estuary system has 18 turtle species, more than any other river delta system in the world — more than the Amazon and more than the Mekong, both extraordinarily biodiverse ecosystems.
You won’t find people chaining themselves to trees to protect this place, or national environmental groups using pictures of it to sign up new members, because few know it exists. And yet, here it is — the Mobile River Basin, one of the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of species and types of habitat. The major rivers and thousands of creeks feeding into this basin together form the largest inland delta system in the United States, second only to the Mississippi in how much water it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico.
The river system, the fourth-largest in the country in terms of water flow, stretches from the northern edge of Alabama to the Gulf, draining parts of four states, and encompassing hundreds of thousands of acres of forest, from Appalachian hardwood stands to haunted cypress swamps. A dedicated band of locals know it for the incredible hunting and fishing it affords. But few know it for its greatest distinction. That’s a shame, for this is America’s Amazon, far and away the most biodiverse river network in North America.”
One of America’s great wildernesses is being destroyed, bit by bit, in a silent massacre https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-11-29/mobile-river-biodiversity-extinctions-alabama