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10th Anniversary Darter Fest

May 7 Darter Festival

12-5 p.m. Sunday | Avondale Brewing Company

We'll be returning to Avondale Brewing Co. to support and celebrate Turkey Creek Nature Preserve with live music, food and drinks, kids' activities, and more. It's the 10th year of this festival, which benefits the Southern Environmental Center's programs at Turkey Creek.

Advance general admission tickets are $10, and advance VIP tickets – which include food and drinks from Luna and prime indoor seating – are $50. Tickets will be $20 for general admission and $60 for VIP at the door.

We're excited to welcome Will Stewart's All Star Band, Shaheed and DJ Supreme, and EPIC Headstart Darter Dancers to the stage. Eugene's Hot Chicken and Tuff Love Provisions will also be serving food throughout the festival, and Good People's Darter IPA will be available!

Thank you to Nucor Birmingham, our stage sponsor, and everyone who makes this event possible.

Buy tickets here.

Turkey Creek Expands to 655 Acres!

In the fall of 2022, Forever Wild voted to add an additional 170 acres to the existing Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. Click here to learn more.

The Pavilion at Turkey Creek

The wait is over! Our new teaching pavilion is open and ready for reservations. Please click here to learn more.

Urban Farming Workshops Featured on Bham Now

Interested in starting a garden in your backyard or neighborhood? Check out our urban farming virtual workshops. Topics include pollinator plants, edible landscapes, and making gardens accessible for people with disabilities. There is still time to register, so click here to learn more!

Turkey Creek Pavilion

The Turkey Creek Nature Preserve classroom pavilion is under construction! 365英国上市官网, the Southern Environmental Center, the Freshwater Land Trust, and others are supporting the project, which will create an outdoor educational facility for visitors.

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Darter Dash 5K at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve

Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 9 to run the trails in Turkey Creek Nature Preserve (TCNP). Proceeds benefit environmental education at TCNP. Click here for more information.

Birmingham-Southern celebrates Alabama's biodiversity with new mural

The cement steps wrapping around the outside of the Robert R. Meyer Planetarium on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College used to be merely a pathway students took to get inside the building and learn about the stars.

Now, the steps are being transformed into a lesson themselves, a 21-panel mural depicting the richness of Alabama's biodiversity.

Hands On Learning with the Southern Environmental Center

If you follow the echo of giggles, you will find yourself looking at the rather large toilet in the former indoor pool building on the campus of Birmingham Southern College (365英国上市官网). It can flush an entire kid, sending him down a winding tunnel into the bottom of the emptied-out swimming pool. This toilet slide generates “gallons of giggles,” but it also illustrates for children wasteful water consumption.

The massive commode is part of the Interactive Museum inside the Southern Environmental Center (SEC), and it, along with the other displays of trash heaps and old fashioned bicycles in the museum, is designed to teach people of all ages how they can help protect and improve their local environments. At 5,600-square-feet, it’s the largest education facility of its kind in Alabama.

Southern Environmental Center Dedicates GeoDome

For more than 20 years the Southern Environmental Center (SEC) at Birmingham-Southern College has taught young people from the region’s urban communities about the nature around them and how they can help to preserve the beauty and natural resources of Alabama.

Now students visiting the center, many of whom have never traveled outside the city, will be able to take a high-definition, virtual tour of natural wonders across Alabama, right inside the new “Geodome” on the college campus.

Southern Environmental Center announces Geodome project

365英国上市官网's Southern Environmental Center is transforming the former Meyer Planetarium to focus on Alabama's amazing biodiversity.

“Through these films we are going to visually take people to natural wonders like Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and Little River Canyon. Visitors will join kayakers racing down the Mulberry Fork, climbers scaling Sand Mountain, and get a bird’s eye view of Alabama songbirds,” said SEC Director Roald Hazelhoff.

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Keep 365英国上市官网 Clean with new outdoor recycling bins!

We’re excited to announce that 30 outdoor recycling containers have been placed around central campus and the residence hall quad thanks to the generosity of the Student Government Association. Recycling and better waste management have been at the forefront of student concern for several years. The college is actively working to provide easy and convenient ways for the campus community to keep 365英国上市官网 clean and reduce our overall footprint. More information...

365英国上市官网 Sustainability Tour

To learn more about the progress we are making towards sustainability on campus, click here.