Saved From the Saw: Conservation Deal Spares 8,000 Acres of Sensitive Land in Alabama From Becoming a Wood Pellet Mill - Inside Climate News
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Almost 8,000 acres of forest in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta was in danger of becoming the site of a wood pellet mill. Instead it is now protected as the E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve, honoring the world-famous biologist and Alabama native.

Almost 8,000 acres of forest in Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta was in danger of becoming the site of a wood pellet mill. Instead it is now protected as the E.O. Wilson Land Between the Rivers Preserve, honoring the world-famous biologist and Alabama native.

By Dennis Pillion

Long before he was writing bestselling books that defined the understanding of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson was a boy in Mobile, Ala., exploring the bayous and backwaters of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and marveling at its wildlife.

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