Jul. 25—BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST — Off-road drivers are damaging Bankhead National Forest in Lawrence and Winston counties, and officials say they are struggling to stop the activity. In the rare ...

DOUBLE SPRINGS, Ala. (WSFA) - This week on Hiking with Hailey, we traveled to the Bankhead National forest. “We have 181,000 acres here, so there is a lot of biodiversity in the Bankhead,” said Kim ...

LAWRENCE CO., Ala. (WAFF) - Bankhead National Forest is now the home to an atmospheric radiation measurement facility for the next five years. Officials with the National Forest and with the ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says 10 out-of-state college students were trapped by floodwaters in Bankhead National Forest Sunday morning. At around 7 a.m., ...

Two items in the news that may be of interest to North Alabama birders: * In Madison County, the cities of Madison and Triana plan to ask the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge for a permit to install a ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) - Two hikers who went missing on Sunday were found safely in Bankhead National Forest on Monday, according to the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department. On Sunday, October ...

I have written both here and in my Huntsville Times birdwatching column about the development of the $8-million Little River Canyon Center east of Fort Payne. But another such center is planned for ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Authorities say a hunter who was reported missing in the Bankhead National Forest was found dead on Friday morning. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office said authorities ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A missing hiker was found in the Bankhead National Forest with a broken leg on Thursday. The Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office said that a man came to the forest from the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Lawrence ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. UPDATE: The two hikers missing in Bankhead ...