Auburn University’s chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) traveled to the Paint Rock River area of Jackson County on the weekend of November 12 and 13. The fourteen participants visited two caves near the Nature Conservancy’s Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve, as well as Limrock Blowing cave near Woodville. Jackson County is a global hotspot for cave fauna, and members were able to observe cave fish, cave crayfish, cave crickets, cave spiders, and other animals (including bats). We stayed Saturday night at The Nature Conservancy’s North Alabama office in Paint Rock, and on Sunday visited a site containing the federally endangered Green Pitcher Plant as we returned to Auburn via the Talladega Scenic Drive, stopping at Mt. Cheaha (Alabama’s highest point) and enjoying the fall foliage along the way.