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Jaclyn Greenberg is a freelance writer. She has written for the New York Times, CNN, Wired and other publications.

The 190-mile-long Cahaba River is home to many rare species, some of which were thought to be extinct. The showy Cahaba lily (at Halfmile Shoals) thrives in clean, clear, rapidly flowing water.