Glynn Wilson A yellow-crowned night heron feeding on the section of Village Creek that intersects the Roebuck Golf Course, just down stream from the destroyed dam. by Glynn Wilson The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Notice of Violations to the City of Birmingham Thursday for killing 11,760 watercress darters, an endangered species protected…
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Birmingham Faces Investigation, Fines in Fish Kill
Glynn Wilson by Glynn Wilson ROEBUCK SPRINGS, Ala. — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not finalized a federal investigation into an endangered fish kill of 11,000 endangered watercress daters by the city of Birmingham, but the agency now under a new president who values science more than his predecessor has approved the city’s…
Major Lawsuit, Penalties Expected in Roebuck Fish Kill
by Glynn Wilson ROEBUCK SPRINGS, Ala., Sept. 24 — It may take a lawsuit to get to the bottom of why and how the director of a city park came to destroy a dam in the habitat of endangered fish and illegally order the excavation of wetlands without a permit on Village Creek, since Birmingham…
