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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. An all volunteer organization, Friends of Shades Creek 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 in the fall, several canoe trips during the year, and the Salamander Festival in the winter. We are supported by memberships and donations.

Friends of Shades Creek


Friends of Shades Creek
Presents:
The Salamander Festival
Saturday, January 28, 2012
3:00 - 5:30 P.M.
Homewood Community Center
Homewood Central Park

The Salamander Program with a welcome, awards, and more, will begin at 4:00.

REAL live salamanders to learn about from biologists plus turtles, fish, snakes, and fossils.

Family Crafts to make.

The Herb Trotman Band will play Bluegrass music.

The Salamander Story
Dancing

Next Canoe Trip
Cahaba Lily Trip - Sunday, June 3, 2012, 8:30 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.
Call 541-7244 for details

February Meeting
Thursday, February 9, 2012
7:00 PM to 8:45 PM

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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).



Click here for more information
about our meetings.