Building the Ruffner Mountain Greenhouse. Photo courtesy of Ruffner Mountain.
From Bham Now's Pat Byington
In November 1992, the Forever Wild Constitutional Amendment was approved by an 84% statewide vote,a national record for a conservation ballot measure at that time. Twenty years later, in 2012, when the Forever Wild amendment was re-authorized by referendum, an overwhelming 76% of Alabamians voted to continue the successful program.
During the campaign in 2012, one of the rare criticisms about the Forever Wild Program was the public’s lack of information about the success of the program. To put it frankly, Forever Wild spent little time “tooting its own horn.”
In this, our second installment in a three part series about Forever Wild, we are going to examine four natural treasures the program has protected over the past 26 years.