Auburn University hosting Forever Wild quarterly board meeting

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October 14, 2023

Auburn University will be the host of the quarterly Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust board meeting, the group announced. It is scheduled for Nov. 2 at Auburn’s College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Environment.

The board will discuss updates in Forever Wild Program activities and tract assessments.

The public is invited to attend and encouraged to submit nominations of tracts of land for possible Forever Wild program purchase. Written nominations may be submitted by email to Forever.Wild@dcnr.alabama.gov or by letter to the State Lands Division, Room 464, 64 N. Union St., Montgomery, Alabama, 36130.

Nominations can also be made online at www.alabamaforeverwild.com/contact/nominate_land_tracts.

The meeting begins at 10 a.m. at 602 Duncan Drive in Conference Hall Room 1101.

Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News.

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