A big thanks to Brent Hess and Garrett Cooke, DNR, for a great electrofishing sampling demonstration this morning. See the photos below! (Click on the photo to see a slide show of all of the photos, or click on the tiny “>” to the lower right of this photo to […]
On July 20, a group of FOMR members did an exploration of the Little Tallapoosa Park. We first walked around the paved path on the south side of the park and then walked the trail around the big lake on the north side of the park. The photos below were […]
On Saturday, May 18, a group of us did a hike in the newest property to be added to McIntosh Reserve Park, beginning on an unpaved road to the south of the old Ranger Station. After walking east along the unpaved road for a few hundred yards, we turned south […]
Bob Sargent of DNR gave a great talk on Eagles in Georgia last Saturday and led us on a short hike to view the eagles nest in a large pine tree across the river from McIntosh. The highlight of the morning came when the eaglet decided to take some exercise; […]
Nov. 18, 2023, Walk ‘n Talk with Sally Bethea, Founding Director of the Chattahoochee RiverKeeper. Meeting on the top of Council Bluff on a perfect, blue sky morning overlooking the clear, fast flowing Chattahoochee, Sally Bethea’s delight with the River and with being back at McIntosh was intoxicating. She was […]
May, 2023: Walk and Talk with Bob Myers, “The Amazing World of Birds” Dr. Bob Myers took on bird watching after retirement. It has brought him and his wife, Sue, many happy hours in the their backyard as well as many miles of happy traveling. And it has brought his […]
This is a report on the June, 2023 Walk and Talk: The Story of Geodes. Dr. Tim Chowns, Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of West Georgia, shared his own personal story of the Woodbury Tennessee geodes in a talk that both explored the origin of geodes in general […]
