Discovering Alabama, the longest running and most popular locally produced show on Alabama Public Television, appeared in Alabama homes and classrooms in 1985, when Dr. Doug Phillips first invited viewers to “Come along with me as we explore the wild wonders of this land.”
As an environmental educator for the Alabama Museum of Natural History, Dr. Doug knew that the natural world could bridge the disciplines for a cross-curriculum approach to teaching. Discovering Alabama programs are correlated with the Alabama Course of Study and, with accompanying Teacher Guides, support the teaching of K-12 academic requirements for science, history, social studies, geography and environmental education.
We encourage viewer response and Dr. Doug prefers that correspondence be in the form of an email or a written letter.
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I wonder why you haven't mentioned the Indian burial mound in Lillian Alabama. Do you not know of the mound or you just don't want people to know about it. I do know that it is on forever wild land and it was on the Lillian swamp hunting club.
Even though I live in GEORGIA; ALABAMA'S my favorite STATE. I love ALABAMA ♥️👍😃
It is a pretty place, been there many times dating back to the early 80s.
Amitabha🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I thoroughly enjoyed this!
The original design used by humans worked !
Isn’t it odd that they just discovered this? I was born and raised in Wetumpka, lived there for 30 years, and now at age 73 they’re just now talking about this thing that happened millions of years ago. That’s Wetumpka.
Wonderful episode...Dr. Wilson was an awesome man and teacher!
Love my Sipsey Wilderness! When renewal of self is imperative.
Heard...it....sayed.....japaneese..entrepeneurs....bought...acres...in...opelika...to...render..a.........food...starch....called....kazoo...powder.😊
I see these all the time in north alabamA
How the hell did we allow Birmingham to blow up bigger?? Birmingham was nothing literally nothing until 20 years after the Civil War. Tuscaloosa should be the biggest city in the state. And the Confederate States of America should be our home!
I loved watching these growing up 😊
I love cranes.
How sweet coordinater.
Wondering where this got to.
I am from another state and been to that Park camping etc many times. Very nice park and friendly people camp there. The Park Rangers and people who work there are nice also. Nice place to take children. Many things for children to do there.
The Lord Jesus is in full control of this beautiful world he created for us. It is our job to care for it but we are destroying it as shown here in this film.
A beautiful video! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I hope we all try to do what we can to nurture wildlife in our own gardens.
Madison county, AL is growing too fast y'all. Leave some woods please.
And they're still selling Bradford Pear Trees. They should be banned.
Great historic video...!!!
Very good video! Anything that cab make birmingham better is very much needed. They also need to let people fish & "catch their supper" in the urban lakes, creeks & rivers that have good clean water!
Thank you have had dreams of village creek in all it's splendor believe it or not😮❤
The river is known for its hungry alligators
Pretty sure the Gears use the river and correct name in their books.
This man really knows his stuff. What was the original air date again? I wanna say late 90’s
I have a Huge favor 🙏 I found what I VERY much believe to be dinosaur fossils. Who do I speak with ? Not in Alabama but TN. I have some knowledge and have done all the matching and figuring I can do. This is a VERY real request for assistance. Whomever assists with identification will NOT be sorry.
We used to call it "shit creek".
İve watched this about 15 times. Whenever i miss home i just listen to it. Thanks again
Omg. People treat fish like they're not alive. Good God "Were gonna take this one back to the lab for study". Ya I'm sure they appreciate how much you respect them
Was some of this filmed in the Choccolocco Mountains?
That's home sweet home to me. Sometimes I forget how blessed I am to live in Northeast Alabama.
There is a bat cave closer to the damn and on a boat at dusk you can go there on a boat and they come out by the 1000s ,its really something everyone close should experience
@@Mike-cv9rr I’ve sat on my ole MasterCraft boat waiting on those bats a many of late afternoons until dark. I agree with you it’s a sight all should take the time to see.
John 3:16
Fantastic video! Makes me so proud to be able to live here and fully appreciate the wonders of nature! Hiking around these mountains is such a beautiful experience. I can't believe deniers of natural selection and the age of the planet still exist but they're in the comments like the fossils in the rocks xD
melted buildings
Perspective. The entire State is one of a kind for many moons
They are telling a lie. The canyon has Ben around for thousands of yrs and was doing just fine we could camp fish spend the night sit around a camp fire it was great before the state took it over. Now we have to pay to go to the park can't spend the nite can't sit around a camp fire. And no one wanted the state to take it over we sign petitions to try to stop the state from stepping in but of course they did any way. If I park on the grass they write u a ticket. I never go down there anymore. Wish it was the way it was before the state step in
thanks for posting another
Thanks for posting this. Grandson of Eufaula living overseas
Thanks for posting
Im 69 yrs old and have been visiting the Canyon probably sincce I was 7 or 8 years old. Its beautiful beyond description. Leave it alone.
I love and miss my dad Jimmie Sanders so much
This video is the best! I can't believe I haven't seen it until just now!
good work!
I sure do like dug...
Dr. Doug is the only doctor I listen to
Thank you for sharing this online! I used part of it in a lesson on ecology in my classroom today.
I love these uploads by Discovering Alabama. I love the geological history of our planet, our country, and this amazing state we call home. I live in the Shoals, born and raised. I've always been interested in being able to find a time lapsed map of the landscape of Alabama, how it all looked nearly a billion years ago, with how rain, wind, earthquakes, impacts from meteors, sea level rise, sea level decline, etc. All had a part in how the landscape of Alabama changed. To be able to see something like AI generated time lapse of how the coastlines changed over and over. How the Appalachian mountains were more like the Himalayas, or at least the Rocky mountains. To see how those high mountain peaks slowly weathered and drained dirt and rock, all the sediment down the tributaries of the Tennessee river, the Alabama river, the Coosa, Tallapoosa, the Warrior, Elk, Flint, etc. witness how my area changed over that time. What the Muscle Shoals rapids looked like when the Tennessee river was but a wee lil river lol. How we have foot hills all around us here in the Shoals, such as Lagrange Mt, Colbert Mt, Hawk Pride Mt, 1,000 ft high hills south of Russellville. How those became what they are. How often was this area close to being a summertime beach area lol. It would be awesome to see a time-lapse of the United States, and the Earth with a detailed span of a billion years or so. But just to see Alabama would make my heart glow lol. Love the uploads and thanks.
I've lived in AL 40 yrs & did not know this. THANK YOU❗️