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Ruffner Mountain Nature Center is a 1011 acres (4 km2) nature preserve located in the eastern portions of Jefferson County Alabama near Birmingham’s suburb Irondale. The preserve includes a visitor center containing native Alabama animals including raptors snakes turtles and owls. The Ruffner Mountain area was home to iron ore mines and stone quarries supplying the area’s steel mills. When the mines played out in the 1950s nature reclaimed the area.
