Bankhead National Forest is home to many different plants, such as the oak-leaf hydrangea, which is Alabama’s state wildflower. (Source: WSFA 12 News) ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. – Portions of the Sipsey Wilderness of the Bankhead National Forest are closed due to a wildfire covering more than 1,000 acres, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

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 ...

But another such center is planned for North Alabama, this one in or near the Bankhead National Forest south of Moulton, and new details of the plan are now available.

The Bankhead National Forest is one of the American Bird Conservancy's 500 Globally Important Bird Areas in the United States. It hosts breeding populations of the black-throated green warbler and ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Officials say a teenager was rescued Tuesday after being lost in the Bankhead National Forest for almost eight hours. A spokesperson for the Lawrence County ...

USDA Forest Service plans to conduct prescribed burns on approximately 193,584 acres throughout Alabama’s national forests – Bankhead, Conecuh, Talladega, and Tuskegee.

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 ...

The Bankhead National Forest (BNF) observatory officially opened for operation on Oct. 1.

MOULTON, Ala. (AP) - A team of biologists had almost finished stretching a net across a portion of Brushy Lake in Bankhead National Forest when they heard the call of a screech owl. "He's out for ...

A 44-year-old man who was hunting artifacts in Alabama’s Bankhead National Forest was found dead weeks after he went missing, family said.