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Alabama includes several types of public use lands. These include four national forests and one national preserve within state borders that provide over 25% of the state's public recreation land. land regions; Alabama State Parks; Alabama Public Fishing Lakes; Alabama Wildlife Management Areas; Little River Canyon National Preserve
Lee County Lake is a 130 acres (0.5 km 2) lake located 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Opelika. Take Alabama Highway 169 south from I-85 then 1 mile (2 km) west on Lee County Road 146. Lee County Lake is the only lake with fishermen cabins and has a courtesy pier by the boat ramp. Weiss Lake is in Cherokee County and occupies 32,000 acres (130 km ...
The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2). The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km 2) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km 2). [8] The Constitution of Alabama requires that any new county in Alabama cover at least 600 square miles (1,600 km 2) in area, effectively limiting the creation of new counties in the state. [9]
Black Belt (region of Alabama) C. Canebrake (region of Alabama) Central Alabama; Central Baldwin; Columbus metropolitan area, Georgia; E. Eastern Shore (Alabama) L.
Michael Tuomey, appointed state geologist in 1847, completed a Geological Map of Alabama and in 1849 and published the first of two comprehensive reports on the state's resources a year later. These publications did much to quantify the mineral wealth of the Birmingham District and helped establish the region's early iron industry.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Pages in category "Lakes of Alabama" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 ...
Public uses of the WMAs vary from area to area, but typically includes hunting, fishing, trapping, hiking, and camping. As of the 2007–2008 season over 768,000 acres (3,110 km 2) of land was under management as part of Alabama WMAs from the north Alabama mountains down to Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico coast. [1]
This is a list of rivers of the US state of Alabama. Alabama has over 132,000 [1] miles of rivers and streams with more freshwater biodiversity than any other US state. Alabama's rivers are among the most biologically diverse waterways in the world. 38% of North America's fish species, 43% of its freshwater gill-breathing snails, 51% of its freshwater turtle species, and 60% of its freshwater ...