Mission
Our mission is to create an environment where families, children, citizens, workers, and visitors work and play in a clean, safe, and accessible Dog River Watershed.
Membership is open to any interested individual, family or organization. Members include property owners, recreational boaters, fishermen, businesses and citizens. The group successfully designs, implements and monitors projects that improve the environmental health of the Dog River Watershed in Mobile, Alabama.
What is a Watershed?
John Wesley Powell, scientist geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: "that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community."
- EPA website
A watershed, basically, Is the area surrounding a river river from which all water (streams, storm drains, road side drainage ditches) drain into the river. Because a watershed area can be quite large, you don't have to live on or nearby the river for your daily life and habits to have an important impact on the river's health.
Membership is open to any interested individual, family or organization. Members include property owners, recreational boaters, fishermen, businesses and citizens. The group successfully designs, implements and monitors projects that improve the environmental health of the Dog River Watershed in Mobile, Alabama.
What is a Watershed?
John Wesley Powell, scientist geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: "that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community."
- EPA website
A watershed, basically, Is the area surrounding a river river from which all water (streams, storm drains, road side drainage ditches) drain into the river. Because a watershed area can be quite large, you don't have to live on or nearby the river for your daily life and habits to have an important impact on the river's health.
Non Profit
Monthly Meetings
Monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Mobile Public Library, 1924-B Dauphin Island Parkway, at the intersection of Dauphin Island Parkway (DIP) and Old Military Road. Committee meetings may be held 30 minutes prior to the regular monthly meeting. Monthly meetings are open to the public.
Directions from Mobile: I-65 South to I-10 East to Pensacola. Move to the right lane and take the first exit, Dauphin Island Parkway (DIP). Stay in the right lane to DIP south. Travel approximately 1/2 mile. Turn right into Fulbrook Shopping Center (by Checkers).
From South Mobile County: East on Hamilton Blvd, left on DIP, turn left into Fulbrook Shopping Center after intersection with Old Military Road (by Checkers).
Monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Mobile Public Library, 1924-B Dauphin Island Parkway, at the intersection of Dauphin Island Parkway (DIP) and Old Military Road. Committee meetings may be held 30 minutes prior to the regular monthly meeting. Monthly meetings are open to the public.
Directions from Mobile: I-65 South to I-10 East to Pensacola. Move to the right lane and take the first exit, Dauphin Island Parkway (DIP). Stay in the right lane to DIP south. Travel approximately 1/2 mile. Turn right into Fulbrook Shopping Center (by Checkers).
From South Mobile County: East on Hamilton Blvd, left on DIP, turn left into Fulbrook Shopping Center after intersection with Old Military Road (by Checkers).
Annual Membership Meeting
This year's speaker was Bill Finch. Did you know that Alabama has more species of turtles than any other state?
The annual meeting is held the 3rd Tuesday of January each year, at which time the board of directors is elected.
The annual meeting is held the 3rd Tuesday of January each year, at which time the board of directors is elected.
