William B. Bankhead National Forest

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William B. Bankhead National Forest

Address:PO Box 278
Double Springs, AL 35553
Phone:205-489-5111
Web: www.fs.fed.us/r8/alabama/forests
Size: 180,581 acres.
Location:Northwest Alabama. Accessible by US 278; AL 5, 74, and 195. Nearby cities/towns include Decatur, Haleyville, Jasper, and Russellville.
Facilities:Campgrounds,dispersed camping, trails, picnic sites, ballfields, shooting range, boat ramps.
Activities:Camping, hunting, fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, ORV riding.
Special Features:25,000-acre Sipsey Wilderness, the largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River; Sipsey Fork, Alabama's only designated Wild and Scenic River; Lewis Smith Lake, excellent for bass and bluegill fishing.
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These properties selling on Smith Lake are within the boundaries of Bankhead National Forest, so you have water and woods at your doorsteps.
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However, a survey of Borden Creek in the Sipsey Fork within Bankhead National Forest revealed that these fishes are still present in the Black Warrior River basin.
Phylogeographic investigations of the Blacknose Dace, Rhinichthys atratulus, in Alabama (Cyprinformes: Cyprinidae)
A third Cerulean population is in Lawrence County within the 71,600-ha Bankhead National Forest (34[degrees] 20' N, 87[degrees] 22' W).
We surveyed Cerulean Warbiers from May to June during the breeding seasons of 2005 and 2006 by walking the floodplains and adjacent slopes of Hurricane Creek and Larkin Fork, and along Flannigan and Borden creeks in Bankhead National Forest.
Avian community and microhabitat Associations of Cerulean Warblers in Alabama
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Cerulean Warblers occurred in three disjunct locations: one in Bankhead National Forest, Lawrence County; and two in Jackson County along Larkin Fork and in Walls of Jericho along Hurricane Creek.
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They tend to be obsessed, like Lamar Marshall who learned how to type at age 43 to publish his own magazine in defense of the hardwood trees around him in the Bankhead National Forest i n Alabama, which is rapidly becoming a pine plantation.
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After one season of trapping efforts in the Bankhead National Forest and surrounding areas in 2002, preliminary results indicate populations are doing well in some areas, but that dense populations are spotty in distribution.
The status of the flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) in selected areas of the Bankhead National Forest and Smith Lake: preliminary results
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