Oyster reefs once sustained the indigenous tribes of coastal Alabama. Baykeeper’s oyster restoration project aims to bring the community together and revive what’s been lost.
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Our most read and recommended stories from Mobile Bay — long-form features, interviews, and reporting from CURRENTS.
Young Salt
Trey King’s new sea-salt operation, Fairhope Salt Company, is making waves in coastal Alabama.
Fishers Of Quiet Waters
The secret world of Little Green Herons.
Shorebirds
Biologist Olivia Morpeth on protecting Alabama’s beach-nesting shorebirds — Black Skimmers, American Oystercatchers, plovers, terns — from Bayou La Batre to Orange Beach.
“Never Too Late To Fight” Talking with the Filmmaker of Sallie’s Ashes
Filmmaker Brennan Robideaux on “Sallie’s Ashes,” his Telluride-debuted documentary about Sallie Smith and the Coal Ash Grannies fighting to move 21 million tons of coal ash off the Mobile River.