Friday, April 11, 2025
Earlier this week, during multiple Beaufort County committee meetings, an attorney representing the Pine Island developers reintroduced plans for a golf resort on the Pine Island property on St. Helena Island.
Yet again, the representative of Pine Island Property Holdings, LLC is requesting permission to remove Pine Island from St. Helena’s long-standing Cultural Protection Overlay (CPO) zoning. This latest proposal substantially mirrors the original proposal that was first introduced in 2022 and soundly rejected…
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Nearly three years ago, Jasper County Council enacted a 9-month moratorium on development in an area along Highway 462. This bought time to protect the 4,400-acre Gregorie Neck property (pictured above!) at the headwaters of the Port Royal Sound, marking a monumental conservation win.
The county’s moratorium, which was twice extended, also provided a window to craft new zoning regulations known as Rural Preservation-10 (RP-10) along…
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dale Morris, Charleston’s former Chief Resilience Officer, friend of the Coastal Conservation League, and champion for our Lowcountry. His expertise and contributions will forever be present in conversations about what resilience means in Charleston.
Dale came to the Lowcountry in 2019, charting a new era of how Charleston thinks about water, leveraging his extensive career in policy and drawing on international relationships as the co-creator…
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Last Thursday, the Town of Hollywood held a Q&A session to hear both concerns and hopes from residents regarding the future of the town. These meetings are meant to give the community an opportunity to weigh in on updates to the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinances to better regulate how the town addresses future growth and development.
The community has been showing up to meetings and…
Thursday, April 3, 2025
A proposed sandscraping project on the beach at Midway Inlet/South Litchfield could endanger sea turtles during nesting and hatching season and disturb migratory birds along the beach.
The project would place up to 75,000 cubic yards of sand – about the equivalent of over 6,200 dump trucks – in front of the Peninsula Community up to two times over the next five years.
These scraping events are proposed for August through October, during…
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Did you hear? The birds are making national headlines!
Earlier this month, we shared our excitement about strengthened regulations for Deveaux Bank. To close out South Carolina Shorebird Celebration Week, shorebird advocates gathered to celebrate Deveaux’s recent designation as a SCDNR seabird sanctuary, the culmination of decades of working to protect migratory and nesting birds. The significance of this victory was featured last weekend on CBS Sunday Morning. Check out this clip! 🌞
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
We’ve had quite the cold spell this winter and as we enter into April, the Lowcountry stirs back to life. As an organization dedicated to our open space and wildlife, we celebrate the spring by getting outside (join us for some of our events!), welcoming the…
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
March is Prescribed Fire Awareness Month in South Carolina, and with the recent wildfires in the Myrtle Beach area, they are top of mind. Prescribed burning is the carefully planned practice of setting fires in a controlled manner under precise and favorable weather conditions. Resource managers like the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina Forestry Commission, and private landowners use prescribed fires to maintain or restore…
Friday, March 14, 2025
SC legislature passes annual closure of Deveaux Bank
This week, the South Carolina legislature officially approved a change to state regulation that closes Deveaux Bank to public access from March 15 to October 15 annually to protect nesting and migratory coastal birds!
Deveaux Bank is a critically…
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
The 2025 legislative session is now underway, and a few bills have emerged as focal points: House Bill 3309, Senate Bill 12, and House Bill 3928.
H3309 seeks to rollback important regulatory oversight of electric utilities and authorize a joint venture between Santee Cooper and Dominion Energy for the construction of a major new gas plant, among other provisions. S12 specifically addresses…
