Landowner Outreach
The League is working to educate rural landowners on sustainable uses for their land. We have embarked on a partnership with the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation’s “Sustainable Forestry Program” to educate landowners about sustainable and profitable ways to work, and keep their land. The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation works with landowners to maintain […]
Maybank Highway Transportation Improvements
The Latest… The first phase of the Maybank Highway Improvements, including repaving Maybank Highway and the addition of a 4-foot bike lane is complete. The second phase, involving adding a third lane from the Stono River Bridge to Main Road on Maybank Highway is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018. The third phase, […]
The Cainhoy Peninsula – Clements Ferry Road
Overview About 20 miles from the historic heart of Charleston lies another significant peninsula—low lying, flood-prone, and steeped in history: Cainhoy. This 9,000-acre property—twice the land area of the Charleston Peninsula—is one of the largest and most ecologically sensitive undeveloped properties in the Charleston area. The northern portion of the property shares a two-mile border […]
RiverPort Development along the Savannah River
RiverPort is a nearly 6,000 acre industrial, residential and commercial development along the banks of the Savannah National wildlife Refuge and near the Savannah River, within the City of Hardeeville and Jasper County. This development shares a 6-mile border with the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge and this relationship should not go unacknowledged. The Savannah River, […]
Land Conservation in the Port Royal Sound Watershed
What’s the Latest? On November 8th 2023, Beaufort County voters elected to approve a ballot referendum for the brand new Greenspace program, securing up to $100 million in conservation funding in Beaufort County. This monumental victory sets into motion the first ever land protection program funded by a penny sales tax in South Carolina that is […]
Bucksport
Building a Resilient Bucksport The Conservation League has joined a coalition of environmental, social, and academic representatives working with the Bucksport community to address a host of issues facing the residents, from recurring flood events to economic empowerment and cultural preservation. The coalition was awarded a grant for a rain garden initiative to increase rainwater […]
Efficiency First in South Carolina
BACKGROUND Energy efficiency is less expensive, yields larger economic returns, results in greater social benefits, and promises superior environmental performance to all other available energy resources. It also presents a unique opportunity to alleviate inequitable home energy cost burdens that disproportionately impact low-income and Black communities. Because energy efficiency can meet a large portion of […]
SC Highway 22 Extension / Southern Evacuation Lifeline
The Conservation League has been fighting for years to stop a road across the Waccamaw River that would open western Horry and Georgetown Counties to sprawling development, destroying some of the region’s most pristine areas and impacting the Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, the Waccamaw River, historic Bucksport, and Winyah Bay. The proposed road across the Waccamaw had […]
I-73 in South Carolina
Most Endangered River Designation On April 16, 2024, the Little Pee Dee River was announced as one of America’s Most Endangered Rivers® for 2024, a list of rivers at a crossroads, where key decisions in the coming months will determine the rivers’ fates. Looming highway development and poor resource management has put this river at […]
Awendaw
The small rural town of Awendaw, in northern Charleston County, is located between the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge and the Francis Marion National Forest. Almost completely rural, some of the elected leaders in recent years have zoned the town for urban development and annexed massive parcels of timber land, also zoning them for urban-style […]