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Friends of Shades Creek is a nonprofit organization of local citizens working for the protection of, and responsible development along, beautiful Shades Creek in Alabama. Shades Creek is 56 miles long and begins just Southwest of Trussville, Alabama and ends near the Bibb/Shelby County line when it reaches the Cahaba River. Friends of Shades Creek is an all volunteer organization, and is led by a board of directors and an executive director. We hold monthly educational meetings on the second Thursday of the month at Homewood Public Library on Oxmoor Road. We are proud to host regular hikes at the Homewood Forest Preserve, an annual creek clean-up on the last Saturday in September, several canoe trips during the year, and the Salamander Festival on the last Saturday in January. We are supported by memberships and donations.

Friends of Shades Creek


The Salamander Festival
Thank you to everyone that helped and attended the Salamander Festival this year. It was a huge success with over 500 people attending.


Robbie Fearm, Executive Director of Ruffner Mountain
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Homewood Library, Room 101 which is downstairs.
We meet at 7:00 P.M.
 Ruffner Mountain is in the Shades Creek watershed. One side of Ruffner Mountain drains into Shades Creek near the beginning of Shades Creek. Learn more about this mountain gem in our city and how Shades Creek connects.Robbie will talk in general about Ruffner Mountain , its history and its role in the local green infrastructure. He will also focus on the results of a recent ecological assessment and Ruffner's position at the head of the Shades Creek Watershed.


April Friends of Shades Creek Meeting
Thursday, April 11, 2013
We meet at Homewood Library on
the 2nd Thursday of the month
in Room 101 which is downstairs.
We meet at 7:00 P.M.

 



Canoe Trip - Cahaba Lily Trip
Sunday, June 2, 2013
8:30 A.M.
Reservations required - 205-541-7244



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Homewood Salamander Story
http://www.thisamericanland.org/
(Go to Gallery/ Check for more catagories/Wildlife/Spotted Salamander)
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A restoration and stabilization project on the banks of Shades Creek has been finished. This project is near the Samford soccer fields and along the Shades Creek Greenway Trail. Professor Greg Jennings from North Carolina, a river restoration expert was the consultant on the project. We are very excited about the project and how it will help to stabilize the banks of Shades Creek.
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Monthly Meetings:
We meet on the second Thursday
of the month at Homewood Library, Room 101 (downstairs).
We do not meet during June & July.



Click here for more information
about our meetings.