From its humble beginnings as a small stream in North Georgia all the way to the Florida border where it joins with the Flint River and ultimately drains into Florida’s Apalachicola Bay, the Chattahoochee River is a popular place with outdoor enthusiasts, from birders and paddlers to hikers, anglers and more.
The Chattahoochee also provides critical resources for millions of birds. Each spring and fall, billions of birds use the Chattahoochee River as a place to rest and feed during their epic migratory journeys. It’s critical for people, too, providing more than 70 percent of metro Atlanta’s drinking water to approximately five million people.
Birds Georgia is partnering with the Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy (CNPC), the National Park Service (NPS), and the Trust for Public Land (TPL) to build bird-friendly habitat throughout the river corridor. The work is part of the greater vision of the Chattahoochee RiverLands which strives to reunite the Chattahoochee River with the metro Atlanta region and link suburban, urban, and rural communities into a continuous 100-mile public realm…