[TN-Bird] New Birding Trail

From: Howard Groce <billyh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:28:27 -0800
TN-Birders,

The following article was in Sunday's Nashville Tennessean:

FLY DOWN TO NEW BIRDING TRAIL

Florence, Ala. - Alabama draws lots of golfers with the Robert Trent Jones Golf 
Trail and fishermen with the Alabama Bass Trail. Bird-watchers could be next 
with the development of another major bird-watching trail.
    Proponents of the North Alabama Birding Trail hope to complete plans for 
the route early this year. It would stretch from Mississippi to Georgia, said 
Keith Hudson, a nongame biologist for the Alabama Division of Wildlife and 
Fresh- 
water Fisheries.
    "The birding trail is coming along nicely.  We've almost completed the 
selection of sites," Hudson said.  "There's going to be about 50 sites 
scattered across North Alabama.
    Stops will include Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River, where numerous gulls 
and other shore birds congregate, and Colbert Ferry Park on the Natchez Trace 
Parkway, where shore and woodland birds are found.
    Debbie Wilson, director of Florence-Lauderdale Tourism, said the birding 
trail will bring many tourists to the area.
    Hudson said bird-watching related travel---called avitourism---is the 
fastest growing form of outdoor recreation.
    Wilson said the Alabama Coastal Birding Trail, which stretches across 
Baldwin and Mobile counties, attracts visitors from throughout the United 
States and abroad.  She foresees the North Alabama trail being a similar 
tourist attraction.
    Hudson said it would likely be about three years before all the signs and 
information kiosks for the birding trail would be installed.
    Money for the project is coming from a $195,000 federal grant obtained by 
the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and $65,000 
provided by local governments along the trail route.


Howard Groce
(By Dale Hollow Lake)
Byrdstown, TN

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