After a year of upgrades, the Alabama Wildlife Federation’s (AWF) Delta & Bay Conservation Center at 5 Rivers, the former 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center, was officially reopened last week with dignitaries and local and state officials hailing the new direction of the property.
AWF Executive Director Tim Gothard welcomed a large crowd to cut the ribbon on the 70-acre property located on the Battleship Parkway (Causeway) on the headwaters of Mobile Bay.
Gothard recalled the 20-year journey of ideas that included the building of the AWF Nature Center at Lanark near Millbrook to last week’s festivities at the Delta & Bay Center…