With National Public Lands Day coming up this weekend, Alabama celebrates the 100,000-plus acres of land that has been purchased for public use in the state since Chris Blankenship became Commissioner ...

The game day experience doesn't have to begin and end at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Just 15 miles from Tuscaloosa, Lake Lurleen State Park lets football fans turn a Saturday game into a full weekend ...

Background: Cedar Creek Reservoir, impounded in 1979 as a flood control reservoir, holds 4,200 acres of water at full pool. Located nearly 10 miles west of Russellville in Franklin County, it is one ...

When Chris Blankenship was appointed Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) by Governor Kay Ivey in 2017, the goals for the Department were somewhat ...

The State Lands Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) announces the youth deer and duck hunt schedules for the M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial ...

Unregulated alligator harvest throughout the South in the early 1900s threatened the species with extinction. Alabama played a leading role in the restoration of the American alligator—a national ...

Located on the outskirts of Alexander City in Central Alabama, Lake Martin is a 39,180-acre impoundment on the Tallapoosa River with an astounding 700 miles of shoreline. Lake Martin is arguably the ...

ADCNR and other conservation groups are currently leading an effort to reintroduce the nonvenomous Eastern indigo snake to the Conecuh National Forest in south Alabama. Prior to these reintroduction ...

The Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program (HIP) is used by state wildlife agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to develop more reliable estimates of the number of migratory ...

Common statewide, but declining in many areas. Includes subspecies C.c.constrictor (northern black racer) and C.c. priapus (southern black racer). Low Conservation Concern. The black racer (Coluber ...

There are three subspecies of pigmy rattlesnakes (Carolina pigmy, dusky pigmy and western pigmy), all of which occur in Alabama. Generally, pigmy rattlesnakes, as their name would imply, are miniature ...

Uncommon to rare and possibly threatened. Alabama's largest venomous snake. Infrequently encountered where formerly common, and now absent from many areas of historic occurence. HIGH CONSERVATION ...