Volunteers
- Sites: Arnica Bay at Stone Quarry, Wolf Bay (Hammock Bay) at Fish trap and Wolf Bay (Graham Bayou) at Cook's dock
- Group Volunteer: Homer Singleton
- Description: Wolf Bay is separated from the Gulf of Mexico by a slender peninsula.
Wolf Bay Watershed Watch was formed eight or nine years ago and began by sampling the creeks and the bay in our watershed as part of Alabama Water Watch. We have expanded to include environmental education outreach and a civic watchdog function with planning and enforcement issues for governmental entities. Membership and cooperation with other environmental groups is encouraged. Members are well represented in Master Gardeners', Share the Beach (Alabama's Sea Turtle Program), Friends of the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Sierra Club, Audubon and many others.
Wolf Bay is traversed on the south by the Intercoastal Waterway and is in contact with the Gulf of Mexico through Arnica Bay on the east and via the waterway, Mobile Bay on the west. We have some of the little remnants of Alabama's salt marsh. Effective monitoring of the health of our Bay and system requires phytoplankton monitoring along with the Chemical and Bacteriological monitoring already in place. PMN provides the essential support for that monitoring.
The Arnica Bay photographs look first at the end of County Road 95 across to the Intercoastal Waterway and Orange Beach and secondly across Arnica Bay toward Perdido Pass. The distant building is a condo on the beach of the Gulf of Mexico. Cook's dock looks first across the neck of the bay at the sampling site, the dock. Secondly there is a picture looking south down the bay to its southern shore. The Intercoastal Water runs just along there. Again the building is a condo going up at the beach half a mile south of Wolf Bay.
