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For Immediate Release September 9, 2016 Fall Bird Walk & French Garrison Saturday, September 17 7:00 am, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park, Wetumpka, Alabama
MEDIA CONTACT: Jacqulyn Kirkland, 334-230-2690 or jacqulyn.kirkland@ahc.alabama.gov
Join experienced bird walk leaders who will help you explore the varied habitat in and around Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park. The rich riparian habitat makes this especially attractive to birds (click here to learn more about the park’s habitat). Don’t forget to bring your binoculars!
Fort Toulouse-Jackson National Historic Park is situated where the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers meet to form the headwaters of the Alabama River. The park preserves relics of over 6,000 years of human history within its 165 acres of woodlands and fields bordering the two rivers.
Immediately following the Fall Bird Walk a new birding trail sign will be unveiled at Fort Toulouse. The sign, provided by the Alabama Birding Trails and their partners, highlights the park’s bird habitat and maps out the Piedmont Plateau Birding Trail region.
Beginning at 9:00 am visitors will have an opportunity to experience French-colonial Alabama. Re-enactors will bring history to life and demonstrate what life was like for French marines as well as the Creek people who lived near Fort Toulouse in 1755.
Admission to the park is $2 for adults and $1 for school-age children.
Find Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park on Facebook or visit www.fttoulousejackson.org.
For more information contact Ove Jensen at ove.jensenahc@gmail.com or 334-567-3002
Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson Park is operated by the Alabama Historical Commission and is located at 2521 West Fort Toulouse Road, 2 miles west of U.S. Highway 231.
The Alabama Historical Commission protects, preserves, and interprets Alabama’s historic places and is the State Historic Preservation Office.
For more information, visit http://ahc.alabama.gov
For more state-wide press releases, click here
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