Corn and Grain Sorghum in for Wildlife Foodplots

Town and County Farm and Garden Supply in Scottsboro, Alabama (256) 259-6777
Corn and grain sorghum is now available for planting of wildlife plots. The cost covers shipping, storage, and handling. This is a fraction of the retail cost for these variety of seeds. This Conservation Habitat Seed Program has planted over 250,000 acres of land in Alabama and millions of acres nationwide. This is left over seed from last years crop. Germination is comparable to this year's new seed.

AWA is planting 6,000 oak trees on the Phillips Wildlife Demonstration Area thanks to the Mead Paper Company. The Phillips Wildlife Demonstration Area (located in Jackson County) will connect Mud Creek Wildlife Management Area to the Skyline /Martin Wildlife Management Area. This endeavor will help ensure habitat for all wildlife and a wildlife corridor for deer and turkey movement. AWA has completed most of the tree-planting phase of this restoration project. This property was purchased from a $250,000 grant from TVA as a water quality enhancement project; as part of TVA's Environmental Initiative Program. AWA is two-thirds complete with restoration work. After all the restoration work is finished, AWA will donate this 80 acre tract to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources' Division of Wildlife and Fresh Water Fisheries for a Wildlife Management Area. Kim Pilarski, TVA's Project Manager for the Phillips WDA and a wetland biologist for TVA stated, " I am pleased with the progress of the Phillips site".

In the past year, AWA and TVA have worked hand in hand on two joint venture projects to build and erect wood duck nesting boxes in the Tennessee River Valley. Last spring, 50 boxes were placed in the Lower Flint River area in a TVA/ AWA joint venture. This spring North Jackson High School and Brewer High School are constructing approximately 300 wood duck nesting boxes for TVA / AWA. Additionally, there will be several blue bird nesting boxes built during this venture. AWA will receive 100 of the wood duck boxes.

Beginning this spring there will be a new waterfowl organization working to do good things for the ducks. Arkansas Waterfowl Federation has been founded and has hit the ground running in and around the Jonesboro, AR area. Jerry Davis, Scott Harned and Roy Sanderson from AWA met with this organization and were instrumental in AWF getting off the ground. AWA has played a key role in this new organization's NAWF beginnings, in that we are sponsoring these guys for membership into North American Waterfowl Federation.

Alabama Waterfowl has kicked off a new program to get kids interested in waterfowling and conservation. The name of the program, under the direction of Mike Crawford, is KWAC (Kids in Waterfowling and Conservation). This program is open to all kids, boys and girls, under the age of 16. Some of the activities planned are to put up wood duck boxes on and around the Big Spring Creek Waterfowl Management Area, a duck calling seminar (featuring former State Duck Calling Champion Cary Sadler) and much, much more. So kids let your moms and dads know that you want to be a part of this new and exciting program at AWA.