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The Escatawpa River is without a doubt, one of the crown jewels of Alabama with huge white sand beaches and clear tanic black water. A botanists heaven. We paddled with Tommy Dodd and his basset hound Mac listening and laughing to Tommy's unique philosophy of the world and and the South while deciphering his immense botantical knowledge. In the early 1980s, the Escatawpa was evaluated by the National Park Service to determine its suitability for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. This Federal Law was designed to protect the nation’s remaining "free flowing" rivers possessing outstanding recreation, scenic and ecological characteristics. Though the river was ultimately not recommended for inclusion for political reasons, the National Park Service described the Escatawpa River as "probably the finest undeveloped black water stream in the nation." (NPS - Wild and Scenic River Study) Though portions of the Escatawpa are considered to be "remote and free from man-made intrusions," (NPS) the watershed is also less than an hours drive from the City of Mobile, and equally as close to Pascagoula, Mississippi. (For more information, please visit Rivers of Alabama)

 

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