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Coastal
Conservation League
Summer 2009
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Volume 20 No.2
Celebrating
20
Years
Celebrating
20
Years
Air, Water & Public Health
photograph by Charlotte Caldwell
20th Anniversary
Summer 2009
Vol. 20
No. 2
Staff
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Director Dana Beach
Regional Offices _____
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Preserving Our Natural Wealth
Nancy Vinson and Dana Beach Look Back
To hear and watch the complete interview with Nancy and
Dana, visit the Conservation League’s Web site at
www.CoastalConservationLeague.org.
South Coast
Office Director Garrett Budds
Project Manager Reed Armstrong
Project Manager Andrea Malloy
Office Director Nancy Cave
Program Director Grace Gasper
NORTH Coast
COLUMBIA
Office Director Patrick Moore
Dir. of Government Relations Heather Spires
Contract Lobbyist Patty Pierce
_______Programs
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Dir. of Conservation Programs Megan Desrosiers
Program Directors Nancy Vinson
Project Managers
Communications Manager Ben Moore
Josh Martin
Hamilton Davis
Katie Zimmerman
Kate Parks
Gretta Kruesi
Development
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Director Nancy Cregg
Membership Alison Geer
Administration
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Director of Administration Cathy Forrester
HR and Admin. Tonnia Switzer
Director of Finance Ashley Waters
Data Manager Nora Kravec
Administrative Assistant Angela Chvarak
Development/Finance Assistant Amanda Watson
Assistant to the Director Eugenia Payne
Board of Directors
Laura Gates, Chair
Andrea Cooper
Cartter Lupton
Berry Edwards
Roy Richards
Dorothea Benton Frank
Gillian Roy
Richard T. Hale
Jeffrey Schutz
Hank Holliday
Harriet Smartt
Holly Hook
Libby Smith
George Johnston
Victoria C. Verity
Mary Kennemur
Trenholm Walker
Fred Lincoln
Advisors and Committee Members
Paul Kimball
Hugh Lane
Jay Mills
Newsletter
Editor Virginia Beach
Designer J ulie Frye
P.O. Box 1765 ■ Charleston, SC 29402
Phone: (843) 723-8035 ■ FAX: (843) 723-8308
E-Mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.CoastalConservationLeague.org
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Phone: (843) 522-1800
935 Main Street, No. 1 ■ Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 771-7102
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Phone: (843) 545-0403
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Reprinting is strictly prohibited without written consent.
Cover photo by Charlotte Caldwell
Is it true that a stockcar racetrack
was almost built next door to
Four Hole Swamp? Considering what
we know about the value of wetlands,
wouldn’t it be safe to assume that they
are out of harm’s way?
Dana: “Not by a long shot. Four Hole
Swamp is an internationally important
wetland forest. It’s the largest uncut
cypress-tupelo swamp in the world and
was designated a Ramsar International Wetland of Significance
(Ramsar being the town in Saudi Arabia where the conference on
international wetlands was held.).
“But amazingly, DHEC staff in 1996 issued a permit to allow a
racetrack to be built right next to the swamp, literally on the edge
of Four Hole and the Beidler Forest Audubon Sanctuary, and with
all the attendant problems that a racetrack would cause, including
not only the polluted runoff, but also the noise. The whole
ambience of the area is so mystical and spiritual and when you’re
out there you can really hear nature; and the idea of races going
on regularly on the edge of this wildlife sanctuary was almost
unbelievable.
“DHEC claimed that they didn’t have any option but to
grant the permit, which was wrong. So the Conservation League
got involved, working with the Audubon Society and Norman
Brunswig and we ended up having to try to overturn the permit at
the DHEC board level. Nancy led and organized that effort and it
was truly exciting.”
Nancy: “Our campaign may have
generated the biggest public outcry
heard from citizens on any one issue
before. I remember one DHEC
board member saying he received
200 faxes over a period of two days
after we sent out an Action Alert
to Conservation League members and to Audubon and Sierra
members. Anyone who has visited this magnificent sanctuary was
outraged. Just the solitude and the silence are so amazing. The
sounds of even a squirrel building a nest are magnified to the point
of sounding like a bulldozer!
20th Anniversary
photos by Mary Edna Fraser, Mitchell Colgan, Tom Blagden, Jr. and the Audubon Society
Celebrating
“We really rallied the troops and people
were furious. So much so that the DHEC
board sent the permit back to their staff
because they hadn’t properly considered the
cumulative impacts of this permit, had not
looked at noise, and had not analyzed the
stormwater impacts correctly.
“It was an amazing journey after that. In
fact, the case went all the way to the state Supreme Court.
This issue was a real rallying call to people who care about
gorgeous natural systems.”
Carolina. So when we discovered that a bill had
passed the House – giving IBP and Smithfield carte
blanche – and that the bill was pending on the floor
of the Senate, we were really scared.
“We knew we didn’t want these massive hog
lagoons, unlined, near the edges of our rivers and
then bursting. So we drafted regulations, working
with the Southern Environmental Law Center, and
put in really tough restrictions to keep the farms and lagoons
away from wetlands and waters of the state, and to keep their
stench away from residences and schools. We also required
training for the operators, really making stringent regulations
so that the industry, when it was
all said and done, looked at other
states and didn’t move here in
a large way. Today, compared
to North Carolina’s 10 million
hogs, South Carolina has about
600,000 hogs.”
20
Years
How about our rivers, are they adequately protected?
Dana: “Flashback to the late 90s, when I think many people
were aware of the problems that factory hog farms were
causing in North Carolina, with fish kills and spills from
lagoons fouling rivers and streams. These problems were in
the national media, but what a lot of people do not realize
is that those operations were poised to move into South
Carolina and literally, we were within a few days of having
the hog industry establish itself as a major force and presence
in this state, with very little oversight.
“Iowa Beef Products (IBP) and Smithfield – two of the
biggest operators in the country – were ready to build huge
slaughterhouses on the Pee Dee River. They had options on
land. Our state Department of Commerce had issued them
incentives packages to build these operations and the House
of Representatives had passed what we call a “red carpet bill,”
basically saying that local governments can have no control
over factory hog operations, which is exactly what had
happened in the late 80s and early 90s in North Carolina.
“So when the Conservation League found about it, at
the time, we didn’t have a constant presence in the capital.
And we were alarmed, as many people were. So Nancy
basically moved up to Columbia almost full-time and took
on the hog industry and won.”
What was the League’s “Bridges to Nowhere” campaign
all about?
Dana: “Now this brings us to the salt marsh, which is
another area where we’ve been involved for the last 20 years.
As many of us are aware, South Carolina has more than
half a million acres of salt marsh along the coast. In the
midst of all this salt marsh, we have little marsh islands –
“hummocks” some people call them – and they’re incredibly
important to wildlife.
“The pressure and demand for waterfront property had
evolved over the last few decades to the point where people
were buying these islands, wanting to put in bridges and
build houses on them – on some islands as small as a quarter
of an acre or less. Nancy again was on the front lines of this
issue in working to reform the DHEC regulations to protect
these islands from being overwhelmed by development.”
Nancy: “I remember it was such an exciting time. We kept
getting calls from Billy Holliday who was on the Agriculture
Commission from Myrtle Beach. He had seen, just above
the state line, what a mess this industry had made in North
c o a s t a l c o ns e r v a t i o n l e a g u e
Clean Air and Clean Water:
Our Health and Our Lives
Depend On It
For twenty years, the Coastal Conservation League has
fought for clean air and clean water
Oasis
Marsh Island
If you’ve ever been caught by a sudden
rainstorm while boating in a tidal creek along
the coast, you may have taken refuge on what’s
called a “hummock” or marsh island. These
islands dot the tidelands of the South Carolina
and Georgia coasts and provide precious high
ground and fresh water in an otherwise salty,
muddy world.
In fact, scientists have discovered a
surprising degree of richness and diversity
among the plants and animals harbored by
marsh hummocks. High concentrations of our
most colorful songbird – the painted bunting
(Passerina ciris) – nest each spring and summer
on hummocks. Migrating warblers and other
neo-tropical songbirds also rest and feed here,
as well as large flocks of herons, egrets, ibis
and wood storks.
Mammals such as deer, bobcats, mink and
river otter also use marsh islands for food,
shelter and territory. In addition, temporary
depressions that flood with rainwater provide
essential fresh water to a surprising number
of frogs and salamanders. Recent studies
demonstrate that these islands, large and small,
play a unique role in the coastal ecosystem,
especially by providing undisturbed sanctuaries
in an increasingly developed coastal zone.
[Sources: Laurie, Pete. “Saltmarsh Refuge,”
South Carolina Wildlife, Nov.-Dec. 2004 and
Georgia’s Marsh Hammocks – A biological
survey, Southern Environmental Law Center,
Sept. 2003.]
Matthew Coull
The Public Trust
S
ince its founding in
1989, the Coastal
Conservation League has
monitored more than
1,000 permit applications
every year on the South Carolina
coastal plain. Whether submitted
to the Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management (OCRM),
or to the Department of Health and
Environmental Control (DHEC), or to
the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE),
each application that will have an
impact on air, water, wetlands or
beachfront is reviewed by Conservation
League staff.
Every year, applicants seek
permission from these state and federal
agencies to use public air and water
resources for a whole host of activities,
including the discharge of waste and
pollutants; the building of docks and
marinas; the construction of groins and
bulkheads; dredging; dumping, and
the release of stormwater runoff. All of
these uses can have significant impacts
on air and water – natural resources
that we all share and upon which our
health and quality of life depend.
Coastal South Carolina, in
particular, is blessed with a remarkable
abundance of white sandy beaches,
meandering creeks and marshes,
verdant wetlands and swamps, and
clear blue skies. OCRM, DHEC
and ACOE are chartered by federal
and state law to protect these public
resources and the health and welfare
of our citizenry. However, the job is
an extremely complex and difficult
one, subject to enormous pressure and
influence. Varying political, economic,
and private market forces all vie for a
larger piece of the pie, while the public
interest – or “the public trust” – often
gets lost in the shuffle.
Over the last twenty years, the
Conservation League has worked with
citizens and conservation partners up
and down the South Carolina coast to
ensure that the public trust is sacrosanct
when it comes to our shared natural
resources. As we move forward in the
coming decades, it is instructive to
revisit the origins of the public trust, a
doctrine that has held legal precedent
for millennia and dates back to Roman
law:
“By the law of nature these things
are common to all mankind – the
air, running water, the sea, and
consequently the shore of the sea.”
Today, modern public trust
doctrine provides that public trust
lands, water, and living resources in a
state are held by the state in trust for
the benefit of all of the people; and
establishes the right of the public to
fully enjoy public trust lands, waters,
and living resources for a wide variety
of recognized public uses. To this
end, much of the work of the Coastal
Conservation League is predicated on
defending this doctrine.
Frank Heindel
VITAL TO OUR HEALTH
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ore and more, we
understand the wisdom of
the public trust doctrine.
If nothing else, our very
survival depends on it.
Common sense argues that protecting
public resources, such as clean air and
water, surely must be beneficial to
human beings. Now we can take this
common sense wisdom a step further,
thanks to recent studies that document
the connection between improved
environmental quality and improved
public health.
“When we improve the health
of an environment,” says Dr. Julie
Gerberding of the Center for Disease
Control, “whether that environment is a
community or a workplace, we improve
the health of the people who live or work
in that environment. Many times, we
can greatly improve people’s health and
well-being by making changes in the
immediate environment.”
One example of this connection is
found in a study published this year in
the New England Journal of Medicine.
The report documents that in cities
where air pollution has been reduced by
implementation of pollution controls,
local residents live an average of seven
Clean Air Is Worth It – For every $1 spent on cleaning up port pollution,
we save $35 in health care and environmental costs.
months longer. The researchers
surveyed pollution rates and longevity
in 51 cities across the U.S. over a
21-year period from 1979 to 2000.
Overall, they found that lifespan in all
of the areas increased by an average of
nearly three years – from 74 to 77 – as a
result of numerous factors, most notably
reduced smoking and improved income.
But 15% of the change was attributable
to cleaner air.
The researchers were able to separate
out the role that better air quality
played by weeding out the other factors
that extend life expectancy and by also
correcting for the “overlap” effect. Dr.
Douglas Dockery, one of the study’s
three authors and an environmental
epidemiologist at Harvard’s School
of Public Health, told Time.com on
January 22nd: “It’s very reassuring.
We can see some benefits from the
regulations of air pollution that have
been put in place in the past 20 to 30
years.”
What If the Conservation League Had Not Been Here?
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The Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge might not exist.
Thousands of bridges would be built across public tidelands and marsh islands.
Massive factory hog farms would be polluting our rivers and groundwater.
Beaufort County would not have a dock ordinance.
The Global Gateway would have been built, transforming Charleston into another
Port of Los Angeles.
A stockcar racetrack would be operating next door to Four Hole Swamp and Beidler
Forest Sanctuary.
Sandy Island would be a 9,500-unit golf resort.
River shacks would dot our coastal rivers and streams.
Manmade lagoons and dead-end walled canals would replace our meandering
Lowcountry creeks.
I-73 would have destroyed the Francis Marion National Forest and the
Cooper River Plantation District.
MAKING OUR AGENCIES
ACCOUNTABLE
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courtesy of the Audubon Society
ecurrent droughts, conflict
over water rights with
neighboring states, and
continued population growth
make South Carolinians
painfully aware of the need to preserve
clean and ample water resources. South
Carolina’s abundant wildlife depends on
clean water too. Nowhere is that more
evident than in the thousands of miles
of creeks and rivers flowing through our
coastal plain. These waterways and their
associated wetlands and swamps harbor
most of the state’s endangered species
populations and scores of migratory
waterfowl and wildlife.
When the Conservation League came
on the scene 20 years ago, it immediately
went to work on a water quality program
based on sound statistical data and
Irreplaceable – Natural wetlands
perform functions such as water
purification, stormwater filtration, and
flood retention – services that cannot be
fully duplicated or engineered by man.
rigorous analysis. Only then would
the South Carolina coastal plain have a
prayer of preserving its wealth of healthy
water and wetland resources into the 21st
century.
It became apparent that the status
quo was slowly poisoning and/or
suffocating the state’s river systems.
Take the Cooper River for example. In
1989, the League analyzed pollutants in
one of the approximately 20 industrial
discharges permitted for release into
the river. The League discovered that
Mobay Chemical was pumping effluents
into the Cooper laced with toxic
copper concentrations that exceeded
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) standards by a factor of 30.
The most shocking discovery
of all was DHEC’s claim that the
pollutants were diluted completely and
instantaneously throughout the river
and therefore did not exist in dangerous
NATURE'S NURSERY
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outh Carolina has more
wetlands than all but a few
states in the U.S., with half
a million acres being tidal
salt marsh. Add to that
such globally significant freshwater
wetlands as Four Hole Swamp and
Congaree Swamp National Park, and
you’ve got one soggy, saturated state.
Long considered dismal places that
harbored frightening creatures and
even worse diseases, these wetlands
are now considered extremely valuable
resources in terms of wildlife and
fishery productivity, water purification,
stormwater filtration, and flood
retention.
For example, most of our
commercially important fish and
shellfish on the coast spend part
of their life cycle in the salt marsh
estuary. Today, however, one-third of
the state’s shellfish beds are closed to
harvesting due to pollution or the threat
concentrations; hence Mobay was not
obligated to clean up its discharge. In
fact, DHEC’s “total and instantaneous”
dilution assumption would allow Mobay
to pump even greater concentrations
of copper into the river and still not be
considered a threat to water quality.
In response, the League petitioned
EPA to add Mobay to a Toxic Hot Spot
list, forcing the company to clean up its
discharge. Eventually, the League’s action
also mandated that DHEC reassess its
standards of “safe” levels of toxics in
industrial waste water statewide. And
finally in 2003 – after six long years of
legal threats, delays and attempts by
industries and utilities to weaken the
regulations – the League, working with
state and federal lawmakers, succeeded
in forcing 28 industrial and municipal
dischargers along the Cooper River to
slash their combined pollutant flow
by 59%.
of pollution. Such degradation is a
result of myriad factors – such as the
proliferation of docks and accompanying
boat wakes, bridges and other hard
structures over public marshlands;
industries and sewer authorities
discharging hundreds of millions of
gallons of pollutants into waterways, and
heavy rains washing toxins into creeks
from the impervious surfaces of roofs,
roads and parking lots.
Since its founding, the Coastal
Conservation League has been working
to protect these vital wetlands from
further harm. Relatively speaking, South
Carolina’s wetlands remain some of the
cleanest and most productive on the East
Coast. They are worthy of the utmost
vigilance, particularly as overall wetland
acreage is declining in the Southeast. So
in 1994, the Conservation League hired
veteran environmentalist Nancy Vinson
as its full-time Water Quality Program
Director. Executive Director Dana
Beach gave Nancy her first assignment:
Defeat the Andell Lock Harbor Marina.
Tied
Back in 1996, the Coastal Conservation
League achieved the unthinkable for a poor,
southern state. With Iowa Beef Products (IBP)
and Smithfield Foods – two of the nation’s most
powerful pork producers – courting the Governor
and the General Assembly for incentives and
permits to construct factory hog operations in
Marion County, the League persuaded legislators
to pass new safeguards for factory hog operations
that were the most protective of water quality in
the nation.
League staffers Nancy Vinson and Jane Lareau
spent months of work and thousands of miles
of travel back and forth to Columbia to enact
this dramatic turnaround. In 1995, a destructive
“Right to Farm” bill had passed the House of
Representatives. Due for Senate passage in
1996, this bill would have essentially provided
an unrestricted welcome mat to factory livestock
operations in South Carolina.
The results of such a giveaway would have been
disastrous, as had been the case in every state
where factory hog farms had proliferated without
strong environmental safeguards – including
North Carolina, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota.
In North Carolina, 10 million hogs were producing
twice the volume of waste as the population of
Mexico City. This waste was being stored in open
lagoons and was not only polluting groundwater,
but also evaporating to create rain laden with
nitrogen and ammonia. Hurricane Floyd dealt the
crowning blow when several massive hog waste
lagoons ruptured, pouring millions of gallons of
untreated waste into the state’s waterways.
The League organized a coalition of key
legislators, chambers of commerce, businesses,
small farmers, and community groups from across
the state to join in the fight to protect South
Carolina’s precious water resources. The new
law –which applied to all operations with 3,000 or
more hogs (IBP and Smithfield’s facilities proposed
to slaughter 36,000 hogs a day) – required secure
liners for all hog waste lagoons, stricter setbacks
from neighboring property and waterways,
and even greater setback distances for areas
designated as Outstanding Resource Waters
(ORW), or areas used as habitat for endangered
species or for shellfish harvesting. Upon passage
of this more protective law, IBP and Smithfield
withdrew all permit applications.
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n 1992, the Saudi-owned East
Seabrook Limited Partnership
proposed to build what would
have been the largest marina
in the state by excavating a 60acre basin in a tomato field between
Kiawah and Seabrook Islands. The
developers planned to connect the
basin to Bohicket Creek – pristine
enough to be classified Outstanding
Resource Waters (ORW) – with
a channel dredged across a road,
through a parking lot, and across
Haulover Creek, a tributary to the
Bohicket.
The League considered the defeat
of this 400-slip marina critical to the
future of the South Carolina coast,
not only because of the damage it
would have inflicted to the waterways
and marshes associated with Kiawah
and Seabrook, but because it would
have set a dangerous precedent for
manmade canals – the purpose of
which are to create more waterfront
property for the development
market – thus setting in motion the
Floridization of our coast.
League Program Director Nancy
Vinson went to work with local sea
island residents and other conservation
partners and convinced the Charleston
County Planning Board to reject the
proposed zoning change on the basis
of a little known statute prohibiting
marinas in Outstanding Resource
Waters. But in spite of the regulations
and data, DHEC staff inexplicably
sided with the developers and issued
a water quality certification, claiming
that the project would have no impact
on Bohicket Creek.
With the help of Jimmy Chandler
of the S.C. Environmental Law
Project and biology professors Joe
Kelly and John Vernberg, the League
definitively refuted the flawed
determinations of DHEC staff and
persuaded the DHEC board to
overturn the marina certification and
permit. The developers then appealed
the DHEC board decision to the state
Circuit Court. The case was heard in
1996 by Judge Larry Patterson, who
upheld the board’s determination
on the basis that the Andell Lock
Harbor Marina proposal violated state
water quality standards and the state’s
Coastal Zone Management Act. After
a five-year battle, Andell Harbor was
dead in the water.
Tom Blagden, Jr.
Hog
A MARINA IN A
TOMATO FIELD
No Manmade Canals for South Carolina – If Saudi developers had had
their way, this 60-acre tomato field would have become one of the state’s first lock
harbor marinas, setting in motion the Floridization of the South Carolina coast.
UNSEEN THREATS
U
nlike water, air has no
jurisdictional boundaries.
Emissions from one area of
the Lowcountry can travel great
distances and not only pollute
the air all of us breathe, but also the waters
and lands surrounding us. We who live
along the South Carolina coast have been
surprised to learn that the air around us is
not as clean as we once thought.
Despite the region’s near constant
breezes and clear blue skies, today,
pollutants too small to be detected by the
human eye threaten our health – namely
the fine particulate air pollution from port
and industrial sources, as well as emissions
from waste disposal and incineration.
These air quality concerns compelled
the Coastal Conservation League in
2005 to expand its water quality work
into a new Air, Water and Public Health
program. Generous funding from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation made
this program expansion possible.
Program Director Nancy Vinson
immediately focused on the Port
of Charleston, which is the largest
unregulated source of industrial air
pollution in South Carolina. In 2005,
for example, Charleston port operations
produced significantly more particle
Diesel Danger Zone – The Port of Charleston is the largest unregulated source
of industrial air pollution in South Carolina, due to dangerous levels of fine particle
pollution released in diesel exhaust from ships and trucks using the port.
Toxins contained in particle pollution from diesel
exhaust have been linked in thousands of medical
studies to stroke, cancer, heart disease, asthma,
and other chronic diseases.
pollution than smokestacks at the
MeadWestvaco paper mill, the leading
industry pollution source regulated by
DHEC in Charleston County.
Particle pollution, or “fine particulate
matter,” is the unseen culprit. It is found
primarily in emissions from coal-fired
power plants and in the diesel exhaust
emanating from the vehicles, trucks,
Take Back
equipment, and large ships associated with
port operations. Less than 2.5 microns
in diameter (a human hair is about 70
microns), these particles are so small that
they are inhaled deeply enough into the
lungs that they are rapidly absorbed into
the bloodstream and then carried to the
vital organs, as easily as oxygen molecules.
Toxins contained in particle pollution
our Tidelands
For more than a decade the Conservation
League has been fighting the “bridges to
nowhere” phenomenon.
With developers
desperately seeking any patch of high ground
that bordered a marsh or a tidal slough – down to
even the most marginal of lands known as marsh
“hummocks” or islands – the potential for docks
and bridges crisscrossing and overwhelming our
fragile tidelands was becoming all too real in the
1990s.
With the help of conservation-minded
attorneys and citizen involvement up and down
the South Carolina coast, the Conservation
from diesel exhaust have been linked in
thousands of medical studies to stroke,
cancer, heart disease, asthma, and other
chronic diseases.
As early as 1999, Charleston was
ranked among the worst 10% of U.S.
cities for diesel soot pollution, according
to the Clean Air Task Force. For the
last three years, the American Lung
Association has given Charleston
County an “F” in air quality, due to the
amount of hazardous particle pollution
in its air. Like cigarette smoking, at
first no one understood the dangers of
fine particulate matter in diesel exhaust.
Now we know better.
A reduction of just 10 micrograms
(10 millionths of a gram) of pollution
per cubic meter of air – a degree of
improvement many cities have been
able to attain over the last two decades
– can extend human lifespans by five to
ten months, according to a recent study
published in the New England Journal
of Medicine. Consider that simply by
living with a cigarette smoker, a person
is exposed to a daily dose of 20 to 30
micrograms of pollutants, and one
begins to appreciate how dangerous
these fine particles are and what a
relatively small reduction can do to
improve human health.
League has stemmed what was an unbridled
tide of manmade structures invading our
marshlands. Thousands upon thousands more
feet of concrete and treated timber threatened
to leach into and “shade out” great swaths
of one of the most productive ecosystems on
earth.
Beginning in 1993, the Conservation
League successfully forced the Office of Ocean
and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM)
to cease allowing docks to extend over state
controlled shellfish beds. Then followed a
series of legal challenges, undertaken by the
League and attorneys Trenholm Walker and
Andy Gowder, in an effort to halt bridges to
A 21st CENTURY PORT
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ot only are diesel emissions a
primary source of fine particle
pollution, they also contribute
80% of the total estimated
cancer risk from hazardous air
pollutants. Yet up until now,
EPA has failed to sufficiently regulate two
of the major sources of diesel emissions
– the trucks hauling cargo in and out of
port facilities and the ships that go in and
out of port. Why? Because trucks and
ships move around and don’t stay still,
thus are not subject to standard air quality
regulations.
In anticipation of new federal
standards, ports around the country have
been reducing their air pollution, some
by as much as 50%. But inexplicably, our
own S.C. Ports Authority (SPA) proposed
expanding its Charleston operations to
the old Charleston Navy Base without
addressing these two major sources of port
diesel pollution.
Working with neighborhood
groups, the Charleston County Medical
Association and the Smoke-Free Action
Network, among others, the Conservation
League has built a coalition that has
significantly raised public awareness of
these threats to public health. Recently,
the coalition successfully pushed for
marsh islands along the Wando and Bohicket
Creeks in Charleston County and along the
shores of St. Helena, Dataw and Fripp Islands in
Beaufort County.
Then in 2000, with the help of attorney
Randy Pelzer and championed by S.C. Attorney
General Henry McMaster and state Senator
Arthur Ravenel, the Conservation League
resurrected legal statutes and precedents that
reasserted state ownership of tidal marsh,
except in the event where private title could
be established through either a state, Lords
Proprietor’s, or King’s Grant. This finding was
critical in defending state tidelands and islands
from encroachment by private developers.
funding of the federal Diesel Emissions
Reduction Act, which will provide
funding to SPA to help clean up emissions
from trucks, tugs and yard-handling
equipment at the docks.
In addition, the Conservation League
and its partners have successfully pushed
for long overdue federal standards
requiring ships to burn cleaner fuel by
the year 2015 and to employ advanced
emission-control technologies beginning
in 2016, creating a 230-mile emissions
buffer zone around the nation’s coastlines
to improve air quality.
Another critical element to cleaning
up Charleston’s port facilities will be to
improve rail access for transporting cargo
in and out of the metropolitan area.
Unbelievably, SPA’s plans for the proposed
Navy Base terminal include no direct rail
– every container would enter and leave
by truck – creating unacceptable gridlock
on Interstate 26, in addition to increasing
already harmful levels of diesel particulate
pollution.
State legislators and more recently
the S.C. Department of Commerce
have joined the League’s push for rail
access to and from the new terminal – a
solution that will not only reduce highway
congestion and air pollution in a densely
populated metropolitan area, but will also
create a more efficient, prosperous port.
Finally in 2006, League Program Director
Nancy Vinson, League Board Chair Will
Cleveland and DHEC Board Chair Elizabeth
Hagood succeeded in bringing together realtors,
developers and conservationists to agree on a
set of new state regulations protecting 90% of
South Carolina’s marsh islands from bridging.
Deemed a model of regulatory consensus, the
advisory committee not only prohibited bridges
to all but 250 of the state’s 2,409 islands, but
also limited the length of those bridges that
would be permitted, as well as devised stronger
standards for docks, lighting, and buffers on
islands where bridges are allowed.
It's All Connected
Highlights of the Coastal Conservation League’s
Air, Water & Public Health Program
1989 – 2009
1991
1990
1989
w CCL opens its first office, on King St. in
Charleston, with a staff of three
w CCL reveals that Mobay Chemical’s
discharges are toxic to the Cooper River
w CCL opposes Dorchester County’s
request to double its sewage discharge
into the Ashley River
w CCL exposes DHEC’s flawed water
monitoring program in Charleston Harbor
w CCL partners with Congressman Arthur
Ravenel and DNR to convince DOT to install a
stormwater catchment system on the Isle of
Palms Connector
w CCL and Audubon defeat DHEC permit that
would allow Oak Ridge Landfill to discharge
20,000 gallons per day of toxic leachate into
Four Hole Swamp
w CCL nominates Cape Romain and surrounding
waters for Outstanding Resource
Waters classification
w CCL begins work with OCRM to reform dock
regulations
w CCL, the Southern Environmental Law Center,
and the Audubon Council sponsor statewide
wetlands conference
w CCL and conservation partners stop Corps of
Engineers from dredging Charleston Harbor
during sea turtle nesting season
w CCL nominates section of Edisto River for
Scenic River status
1992
1994
w CCL opens South Coast office in Beaufort
w CCL hires Water Quality Program Director
Nancy Vinson
w CCL awarded Conservation Organization of
the Year by the S.C. Wildlife Federation
w CCL calls for strengthening of the state’s
septic system regulations to prevent
contamination of groundwater
1993
w CCL and SCELP begin fight to halt a 400slip Andell Lock Harbor Marina between
Kiawah and Seabrook Islands
w CCL objects to peat mining in Snuggedy
Swamp, a rare and undisturbed pocosin in the
ACE Basin
w CCL halts extension of docks over state
shellfish beds
1995
w CCL leads opposition to amendments
intended to weaken the federal Clean Water
Act and Endangered Species Act
w CCL and sea island residents persuade
1996
Charleston County to reject plans for
w CCL convinces the S.C. General
the Andell Harbor Marina
Assembly to enact the nation’s
w CCL begins battle to strengthen
most protective factory hog
S.C.’s factory hog farming laws
operations law
w CCL and Audubon begin battle to
defeat a proposed stockcar racetrack
next door to Four Hole Swamp
w Citizens create a Beaufort Clean
Water Task Force with help and
staffing from CCL
1997
w CCL membership exceeds 2,000, bolstered
by grants from 13 charitable foundations and
supporting a staff of six
w CCL joins Beaufort County citizens to fight
208-slip marina proposed on the Coosaw River
in the heart of the ACE Basin
w CCL and Friends of the Earth file lawsuit to
prevent Wolverine Brass from discharging
toxic metals into Soccastee Swamp in the
Waccamaw River basin
1998
w Cape Romain and surrounding
waters are officially upgraded to
Outstanding Resource Waters
w CCL assists residents in Beaufort
and Charleston Counties in halting
bridges to marsh islands
w DHEC board denies permit for
racetrack adjacent to Four Hole
Swamp
w CCL teams up with the College
of Charleston to document the harmful
impacts of big boat wakes on Bohicket Creek
w After five years, Andell Lock Harbor Marina
defeated in Circuit Court
w Beaufort Clean Water Task Force receives
Environmental Awareness Award from the S.C.
General Assembly
w CCL helps in the establishment of the
Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge
2002
2001
w CCL and Charleston Moves begin
campaign for a pedestrian/bicycle lane to
be included on the new Ravenel Bridge
w CCL fights industry attempts to
weaken the 1996 Swine Act
w CCL launches opposition to proposal
for a Lone Star-Rimini Connector
through Sparkleberry Swamp
w SPA withdraws permit applications
for its Global Gateway port terminal
on Daniel Island
w CCL helps broker deal between Horry
County and TNC to save Sterritt Swamp
from becoming a landfill
w Dana Beach publishes Coastal Sprawl:
The Impact of Urban Design on Aquatic
Ecosystems, commissioned by the Pew
Ocean Commission
w CCL prevents weakening of factory hog
regulations
w General Assembly rejects any port
expansion on Daniel Island
w Beaufort County Council,
with help from CCL, passes state’s
first local dock ordinance
w CCL hires Juliet Cohen to coordinate
opposition to the Global Gateway, a
huge port facility proposed for Daniel
Island
w CCL reasserts state’s legal ownership
of tidal marsh and islands
w CCL and American Rivers succeed in
requiring a fishway to be constructed at
the Columbia Dam on the Broad River
w CCL works with advisory committee
to draft landmark regulations protecting
marsh islands and public trust tidelands
w Pedestrian/bicycle lane opens on new
Ravenel Bridge thanks to a multi-year
campaign by CCL and Charleston Moves
2006
1999
w CCL begins its 2nd decade with 17 full-time
staff working out of offices in Georgetown,
Charleston and Beaufort and supported by
more than 4,000 members and 43 charitable
foundations
w CCL joins Pee Dee citizens to oppose a Corps
of Engineers’ proposal to dam Back Swamp
w CCL assists St. Helena and Dataw Island
residents in stopping a proposed bridge to
North and South Palm Islands
w CCL creates Web site and Action E-List
w CCL helps citizens in Horry and Darlington
Counties defeat proposed hog operations that
violate state law
w CCL prevents weakening of dissolved oxygen
standards for coastal rivers, resulting in significant
pollution reduction
w CCL wins improved stream flow requirements
for Broad and Congaree Rivers, thus protecting
endangered species
2004
2005
2000
2003
w CCL helps broker agreement to purchase 320acre Tiger Bay for inclusion in the Lewis Ocean
Bay Heritage Preserve
w CCL assists in halting bridge and intense
development on Long Island
w CCL exposes inadequate analysis and faulty
data in SPA proposal for port expansion on
Charleston’s former Navy Base
w CCL partners with Hilton Head residents and
sports fishermen to halt illegal dumping of
dredge spoil in Calibogue Sound
w CCL and conservation partners assist in
designation of Congaree Swamp as the state’s
first national park
w CCL and American Rivers force SCE&G to
upgrade operation of its Saluda Dam to meet
state requirements for dissolved oxygen and
water flow
2007
w CCL helps broker Vought Aircraft
mitigation deal to protect wetlands at
Four Hole Swamp and the Ashley River
w CCL convinces General Assembly to
pass bill outlawing river shacks
w CCL appeals DHEC permit for new
container terminal in North Charleston
2008
w CCL works with legislators to develop a surface
water withdrawal permitting program for S.C.
w CCL assists Plantersville and Awendaw
communities with septic tank repair and
replacement
w CCL advocates for reform of DHEC and SPA
governance and decision-making
w CCL launches Clean Air Everywhere initiative
raising awareness of air pollution problems in
Lowcountry communities
Giving Back
T
he Coastal
Legacy Society
John Moore
T
he Coastal Legacy Society is a group of Coastal Conservation League supporters who
have made a lasting contribution by making a life income gift with the Conservation
League or by naming the League as a beneficiary in their estate plans. The Coastal
Legacy Society is a way for us to recognize our donors’ foresight in providing for the
future of the Conservation League and for the future of the South Carolina coast.
Discover the many ways you can help the Coastal Conservation League protect the
landscapes, the waterways and the communities you love while also meeting your
financial objectives. Smart and creative gift planning with us can help maximize your
philanthropic giving and the benefits to you. Here are some of the available tools to
make a lasting gift to conservation today:
Bequests – This tool enables you to give to the
Conservation League without affecting your cash
flow during your lifetime.
Retirement Assets – When you name the League
as the beneficiary of your IRA, 401(k) or other
qualified plan, after your lifetime, the residue of your
plan can pass to the Conservation League tax free.
Charitable Remainder Trust – With this tool, you
can transfer cash, securities or other appreciated
property such as real estate into a trust. Each year,
the trust pays a percentage of its value to you or to
beneficiaries you name. When the trust terminates,
the remainder passes to the Conservation League.
Life Insurance – You can provide now for a future
gift to the Conservation League by naming us as
beneficiary of a policy insuring your life.
[The Coastal Conservation League wishes to express its deep appreciation to Mr. & Mrs. Liles, to Dr. Williams,
and to all of our Coastal Legacy Society members, whose names appear on page 18 of this newsletter.]
Giving Back
Jo Ann & Jon Liles
Celebrating
J
20
Years
o Ann and Jon Liles own a consulting
forestry business in Walterboro. After
having been “week-enders” on Edisto
Island for about eight years, in 1999
they decided to build their last house for
the final time and became permanent
residents on the island they both love so
dearly.
In anticipation of a trip out West several
years ago, Jo Ann and Jon were prompted to
update their wills and estate planning. Part
of their philosophy has been built on the
golfer’s creed of “repair your ball mark and
one other.”
Because significant gifts to charities have
been difficult during the years spent building
their business, they came up with the idea of
designating a percentage of the principal of
their estates to their alma maters and to the
Coastal Conservation League, thus allowing
them “to repair one other.”
Celebrating
20
Years
Jon and Jo Ann realize that growth will
come to the beautiful coastal community
of Edisto, but that it must be planned. “We
believe that the Conservation League works
diligently to protect our precious resources
from overuse and from unplanned growth,”
states Jo Ann, “and that is why we have chosen
to support the League in this manner. ”
Great flexibility is allowed by using this
method of giving, and the League feels
fortunate in having friends who envision
their role in protecting our environment by
assisting its efforts through estate planning.
George Williams
“
For more information,
please contact Nancy Cregg,
Director of Development for
the Coastal Conservation
League at 843-723-9895.
While we are eager to
answer any questions you
might have about planned
giving, we strongly encourage
our donors to seek the advice
of an independent tax or
financial advisor.
I
believe in the necessity of the work that
the Coastal Conservation League is
doing,” says George Williams, “and the
group’s success is quite remarkable. Dana
Beach has a national reputation for getting
things done.”
This is not faint praise, coming from
a retired Professor of English at Duke
University, a Yale graduate, and perhaps most
importantly, a Charleston native. George
Williams grew up at 27 Limehouse Street
and though he still maintains a residence in
Durham, N.C., having taught at Duke for 35
years, Charleston and the Lowcountry will
always be home, for both George and his wife,
the former Harriet Simons.
In fact, you may have spotted Harriet
and George – who’ve been married 56 years
– paddling a kayak last April on Black Mingo
Creek near Georgetown. They remain active
in their retirement and live part of the year in
a Simons family home on Tradd Street.
Among his many commitments, George
serves as Associate General Editor of the
Arden Shakespeare Series (published in
London), as well as Chairman of the Michaux
Garden Committee of the Charleston
Horticultural Society. Harriet currently
devotes much of her energy to the Charleston
chapter of Planned Parenthood. Just this
month, the organization will dedicate a new
facility on Rutledge Avenue in Charleston.
This year, George included the Coastal
Conservation League as a beneficiary of
his family’s Charitable Remainder Trust
at the Coastal Community Foundation.
“Conservation had always been an interest of
mine and my parents,” states George.
Legislature 2009
Progress on Waste and Water
Dumping Ground No More
l-r) Marlboro County residents Jere Russo,
Meredith Russo, Lucy Mills Parsons, Tom
Wood and Chuck Ashburn gather at the
State House on Lobby Day to challenge their
legislators to reform current landfill laws
that allow South Carolina to be the nation’s
dumping ground.
Law Project – are still battling landfill
threats from out-of-state operators. As
the Post and Courier stated in a recent
editorial: “Waste disposal shouldn’t be
a growth industry beyond the state’s
own needs.”
Healthy, Minimum Flow
Standards Established for
State Waterways
As we close on the first year of a
two-year legislative cycle in the General
Assembly, an important amendment
was added to proposed water withdrawal
legislation that will carry over into the
2010 Legislative Session. Senators
agreed to use the S.C. Department of
Natural Resources’ seasonally variable
flows as the minimum instream flow
for the state’s rivers and streams. These
minimum standards are based on
scientific analysis of how much water
flow is needed in our waterways to
sustain healthy aquatic life.
Nancy Cregg
While a moratorium on new landfills
was defeated by the House Agriculture
Subcommittee at the end of the 2009
Legislative Session, a monumental
reduction in state landfill capacity
was approved by the DHEC board in
April. Based on the recommendations
of its Landfill Capacity Task Force, the
DHEC board took a critical step in
correcting the excess capacity issue in
South Carolina that has resulted in the
proliferation of applications for “mega
landfills” wanting to locate in our state.
Without the Senate’s threat of a
legislative moratorium, such a reduction
in capacity would never have occurred.
Essentially, the DHEC board reduced
overall state landfill capacity from 42
million tons annually to 10.8 million
tons. Even though South Carolina only
produces 4.6 million tons of waste each
year, the 10.8-million-ton figure more
closely reflects the actual needs of the
state and represents a big improvement.
According to the Conservation
League’s Director of Government
Relations, Heather Spires, a reduction
of this proportion will definitely put a
damper on the out-of-state waste trade
that is posing such a threat to public
health here.
The Conservation League is grateful
for the leadership of Senator Gerald
Malloy (D-Marlboro), sponsor of S.324
– the landfill moratorium bill – which
was a key leverage point in addressing
the issue of predatory dumping in
South Carolina.
Recently, citizens of Williamsburg
County successfully blocked a new
mega-landfill proposed by a North
Carolina waste company. Meanwhile,
Marlboro, Laurens and York Counties
– who are represented by Jimmy
Chandler of the S.C. Environmental
Nancy Cregg
State Landfill Capacity
Reduced to Safer,
Saner Levels
(l-r) Nelson Chandler and Tommy
Stuckey helped lead the fight to defeat a
proposed mega-dump in Williamsburg
County.
Such rational, science-based
standards contrast sharply to earlier
provisions in the proposed legislation
that allowed rivers and streams to be
drawn down by industrial users to near
drought-level conditions. The time
has come for South Carolina to pass a
protective water withdrawal permitting
bill that is good for the environment
and good for business. Such a law
would put the state on much stronger
ground as we negotiate with North
Carolina and Georgia over water usage
rights and will help South Carolina
Legislature 2009
Building for Tomorrow Today
The Conservation League’s Contract
Lobbyist Patty Pierce and Climate and
Energy Program Director Ben Moore
have worked for more than a year to
garner the support of over 50 different
stakeholders for legislation that ensures
the establishment of the most up-todate energy codes for South Carolina.
Ranging from green mortgage
companies, realtors, developers,
energy efficiency and building code
associations, and the conservation
community, this diverse coalition
succeeded in updating building codes
that were based on standards developed
some twenty years ago that had not
been revised since the early 1990s.
The goal was to ensure that South
Carolina’s building codes are regularly
and automatically updated to reflect the
latest advances in building technology
and to establish modern minimum
efficiency building code standards for
all residential construction. According
to the Governor’s Climate, Energy,
and Commerce Advisory Committee,
the new legislation would help South
Carolina achieve 7% electricity and 5%
natural gas savings by 2020 – equivalent
to three power plants, each with a 600megawatt capacity, or enough energy to
safeguard one of our most vital natural
resources.
A “Fair Share Water Bill” was first
introduced in 2007 by Senator Wes
Hayes (R-York), but attempts to pass
this legislation have been thwarted
year after year by special interests and
industries who want to claim more
than their fair share of our state’s water
resources. These parties wish us to
believe that year-round drought level
flows are “adequate” for public use
and for the health of our rivers. If we
power more than 500,000 homes.
Speaker Pro Tempore Harry Cato
led the way to reform our state’s
outdated energy efficiency building
standards for single and two-family
dwellings through the introduction of
legislation H.3550. The Conservation
League helped draft this bill last
summer and continued to finetune it
this fall with a number of interested
parties.
After working with the investor
owned utilities, the S.C. Home
Builders Association, the S.C. Electric
Cooperatives, and the North American
Insulation Manufacturers, the League
finally reached a compromise. The
compromise ensured that the 20year old energy standards would be
removed from the code and replaced
with the 2006 International Energy
Conservation Code standard. On June
3rd, H.3550 was signed into law by
Governor Mark Sanford.
In the future, the League will
work to ensure that energy standards
are automatically updated to reflect
advances in building technology and to
achieve the highest energy and money
savings for South Carolina residents.
accept this, then South Carolina in
essence concedes that we need nothing
more than drought level flows, leaving
everything else for our neighboring
states to usurp.
Building on this first year of a twoyear legislative session, Government
Relations Director Heather Spires is
optimistic about the significant progress
that was made in Senate Committee
this session. She and her team of citizen
lobbyists, along with other conservation
partners at the State House, will continue
Becky Rickenbaker
New Energy Efficient Building Codes Become Law
Sixth Annual Conservation Lobby
Day – Students from Lexington High School
participated in the annual Conservation
Lobby Day held on April 28th.
to work with legislators in both Houses
of the General Assembly next year to
craft sound water withdrawal regulations.
As Heather says, “Developing an
entirely new regulatory program cannot
happen overnight. Issues of major
importance and major impact such
as this take time, especially with so
many different stakeholders involved.
Know that we will stick with this issue,
however long it takes, to pass the most
protective permitting program we can for
safeguarding our state’s water supply.”
Members' Corner
South Coast Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Members Julia and Gordon Levering
gather at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton to
celebrate the Conservation League’s 20th
Anniversary.
Building a Whole Earth
Economy
(l-r) League supporters Allyn Schneider
and James Gardner at the South Coast
20th Anniversary Party on April 26th.
Author Peter Brown, with his new book
Right Relationship: Building a Whole
Earth Economy, spoke at a forum held
at the Circular Congregational Church,
sponsored by the Conservation League.
Dennis Glaves, Kathy White, League board
member Holly Hook and Richard White celebrate
20 years of the Coastal Conservation League.
State Representative Shannon
S. Erickson with League Project
Manager Reed Armstrong at
the South Coast party.
College of Charleston student League
members attend Peter Brown lecture.
Wildlands Philanthropy: The Great American Tradition
(l-r) Host Grange Simons, author
Tom Butler and League Director Dana
Beach celebrate the publication of
Butler’s book, Wildlands Philanthropy:
The Great American Tradition.
(l-r) Elizabeth Bradham, author Tom Butler,
League board member Dick Hale and Randy
Pelzer gather for a League reception at Live
Oak Society member Grange Simons’ house.
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Live Oak Society members Kitty and Irenee
May arrive for a League reception honoring
author Tom Butler.
Members' Corner
History & Wildlife on Black Mingo Creek
League South Coast Director Garrett Budds (far right)
speaks to League members on a 20th Anniversary outing to
Jehossee Island.
Author J.W. Nelson Chandler relates the history of Black Mingo
Creek to Conservation League members participating in a 20th
Anniversary kayak and bird outing.
Rice mill chimney at Jehossee Island.
League members Ariana Blanchet Rollins, Kent Rollins, Kent
Blanchet Rollins and Nadia Blanchet gear up for kayaking Black
Mingo Creek.
Jesse Goldberg paddles the shoreline of Jehossee.
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Members' Corner photos by Nancy Cregg
Ace Basin Comes Alive
Thank You!
LIVE OAK SOCIETY
Contributions Received from
May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009
The Coastal Conservation League works very hard to ensure that all donor names
are listed correctly; however, occasional mistakes do occur. Please contact Membership
Director Alison Geer at (843) 725-2066 with any questions or corrections.
$10,000+
Anonymous (2)
Penny and Bill Agnew
American Rivers, Inc.
Anthony and Linda Bakker
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Berry
The William Bingham Foundation
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
Charlotte Caldwell and Jeffrey Schutz
Ceres Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Chitty
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Mrs. Vivian Donnelley
Vivian Donnelley Charitable Trust
The Festoon Foundation, Inc.
Dorothea and Peter Frank
Nancy and Larry Fuller
Laura and Steve Gates
William and Mary Greve Foundation
John C. Griswold Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Hale
Hillsdale Fund, Inc.
Joanna Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lane
Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr.
Mills Bee Lane Foundation
Mr. T. Cartter Lupton II
Lyndhurst Foundation
Merck Family Fund
Mertz Gilmore
Mr. Edward Miller
Mrs. Alexander Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Moses
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr.
Post and Courier Foundation
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
Steven and Barbara Rockefeller
Rockefeller Family Fund, Inc.
Gillian and Peter Roy
Mr. and Mrs. John K. Runnette
Jeffrey Schutz and Charlotte Caldwell
Ms. Dorothy D. Smith
Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tenney
H. L. Thompson, Jr. Family Foundation
Mr. Daniel K. Thorne
Daniel K. Thorne Foundation, Inc.
Gary and Mary Beth Thornhill
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Turner Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Vardell III
and Family
WestWind Foundation
Joe and Terry Williams
Yawkey Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous (4)
Ms. Molly H. Ball
Banbury Fund, Inc.
John and Jane Beach
Virginia and Dana Beach
Henry M. Blackmer Foundation, Inc.
Mrs. Margaret N. Blackmer
Ms. Margaret P. Blackmer
Butler Conservation Fund, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleveland
The Edward Colston Foundation, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cowgill
Mr. and Mrs. P. Steven Dopp
Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Fennell
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fennell
James L. Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert
Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hagerty
Holly H. Hook and Dennis A. Glaves
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kimball
Lau Associates LLC
Ms. Bokara Legendre
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Masaschi
Mr. and Mrs. Irenee duPont May
Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank, Jr.
Mrs. Frank M. McClain
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meier
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell, Jr.
Mr. Guy Paschal
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Mrs. Alexander F. Schenck
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Schenck
Southern Environmental Law Center
Tara Foundation
Susan and Trenholm Walker
COASTAL LEGACY SOCIETY
The Coastal Legacy Society honors those who have provided for the
Coastal Conservation League through their wills or estate plans. By
making a gift to the Coastal Legacy Society, you will join this group of
extraordinary individuals in their commitment to protect the Lowcountry
for generations. If you are interested in finding out more about naming
the Coastal Conservation League in your will or estate plans, please
contact Development Director Nancy Cregg at (843) 723-9895.
Anonymous (2)
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting
Russell and Judith Burns
Charlotte Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coffee, Jr.
Ms. Marcia Curtis
Howard Drew
Carol B. Ervin
Mrs. Mary C. Everts
Dr. Annette G. Godow
Miss Florence E. Goodwin
Katherine M. Huger
Jane Lareau
Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles
Dr. Thomas R. Mather
Miles F. McSweeney
Ellen and Mayo Read
Mr. Jason A. Schall
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg
Janis Hammett-Wegman and Charles Wegman
George W. Williams
$2,000 - $4,999
Anonymous (1)
Mr. J. Marshall Allen
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allen
Mr. J. Anderson Berly III
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold B. Chace, Jr.
Clement Crawford and Thornhill, Inc
Mr. and Mrs. Munroe Cobey
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Coen
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cooper III
Nancy and Steve Cregg
Mr. Hal Currey and Ms. Margaret Schachte
Ms. Connie Darden-Young and
Mr. Jesse Colin Young
Mr. and Mrs. Berry Edwards
Mrs. Mary C. Everts
Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Fetter
Rev. and Mrs. David Fort
The Hilliard Family Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Hilliard
James and Margaret Hoffman
Billie and Alan Houghton
Dr. and Mrs. Todd P. Joye
Mr. and Mrs. John Philip Kassebaum
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laco
Bob and Jackie Lane
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Leath, Jr.
Lasca and Richard Lilly
Dr. Suzanne Lindsay and Mr. Bruce Lindsay
The Suzanne and Bruce Lindsay
Charitable Foundation
Mr. Lorcan Lucey
Lucey Mortgage Corporation
Magnolia Development LLC
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Maize, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. G. Alex Marsh III
Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Mather
Mrs. Harriet McDougal
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank III
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Mills
Sally H. Mitchell
Mrs. William Moredock
The Morning Sun Foundation
Charles and Celeste Patrick
Mr. and Mrs. David Paynter
Ms. Cynthia Swanson Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Prevost
Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation
Grace Jones Richardson Trust
Mr. John M. Rivers, Jr.
John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation
Ms. Martha Jane Soltow
Charles and Jo Summerall
Mr. and Mrs. Jacques S. Theriot
Jane Smith Turner Foundation
Mr. Robert L. Underwood
Dr. Robert Ellis Welch, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Wyrick, Jr.
Ziff Properties Charleston
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ziff
$1,000 - $1,999
Anonymous (5)
Drs. T. Brantley and Penny Arnau
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Avery
Thank You!
John F. & Susan B. McNamara Fund
of the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McShane
Mr. P.O. Mead III
Kincaid and Allison Mills
Ms. Martha Morgan
Russell E. and Elizabeth W. Morgan
Foundation
Mr. Hugh Comer Morrison
Nature Adventures Outfitters, Inc.
Mr. P. Sherrill Neff and Ms. Alicia Felton
Mrs. Elizabeth B. O'Connor
Ms. Elizabeth F. Orser
Dr. Robert Payne and
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas
Dr. Leslie H. Pelzer
Mrs. Joan C. Pittman
Plantation Services, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Quigley
Mrs. Charles D. Ravenel
Mr. and Mrs. S. Kim Reed
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Richardson, Jr.
Dr. Georgia C. Roane
David W. and Susan G. Robinson
Foundation
Mrs. David Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rothnie, Jr.
Rothnie Family Fund of Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
Bob Rymer and Catherine Anne Walsh
Mr. Lee Schepps and Ms. Barbara Cottrell
Dr. H. Del Schutte, Jr.
Drs. Ryan and Erin Smith
Southern States Educational
Foundation Inc.
James Gustave Speth Fund for the
Environment of the Open Space
Institute, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Stoothoff
William and Shanna Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Jan S. Suwinski
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Symington, Jr.
Dr. Ann Truesdale and Mr. James Truesdale
Tom Uffelman and Patty Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Greg VanDerwerker
Vortex Foundation
Sally Webb
Dr. W. Curtis Worthington
Ms. Martha C. Worthy
$500 - $999
Anonymous (4)
Ms. Carrie Agnew
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad P. Albert
Ms. Helena Appleton and Mr. David Lott
Ms. Vivian D'Amato Asche
Paul and Mary Avery Charitable Fund of
the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Beaton
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Beattie
Mrs. Katrina Becker
Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Bowers
Judge William Campbell and
Ms. Susan Hilfer
Mr. R. R. M. Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Carson, Jr.
Leigh Mary W. Carter Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Carter
Mr. and Mrs. T. Heyward Carter, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Childs
Dr. H. Paul Cooler
Mr. Jack Cordray
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Creech
Mr. Malcolm M. Crosland, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. William F. Crosswell
Ms. Rebecca R. Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Davis
Mr. Chris Davis
Curtis and Arianna Derrick
Mr. Christopher DeScherer and
Ms. Amanda Honeycutt
Ms. Ann W. Dibble
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Eidt, Jr.
Mr. D. Reid Ellis
Mr. Mark Essig and
Mrs. Martha Craft-Essig
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ethridge III
Ms. Nina M. Fair
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Feldman
Ms. Catherine H. Forrester
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Gault
Alison and Arthur Geer
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Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Geer
Mr. James R. Gilreath
Ms. Melanie Gnazzo
Dr. Annette G. Godow
Ms. Amanda Griffith
Blair and Nancy Hahn
Half-Moon Outfitters
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hanlin
Dr. Kit M. Hargrove
Mr. and Mrs. D. George Harris
Mrs. Charlotte McCrady Hastie
Whitney and Elizabeth Hatch,
via the Ayco Charitable Foundation
Oliver R. Head, Jr. and Mary M. Head
Gift Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Mr. William J. Hennessy, Jr.
Mr. Fred B. Herrmann
Mr. Edwin Hettinger and
Ms. Beverly Diamond
Hilton Head Island Audubon Society
Mr. William L. Hiott, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Adams Hodge
Dr. Melanie A. Hopkins
Mr. and Mrs. Calvert W. Huffines
Robert L. Huffines, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
James and Page Hungerpiller
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jackson, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Johnston
Ms. May Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Jules
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Kammer
Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Keller, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. John J. Keyser
Melissa and Michael Ladd
Dr. Diane D. Lauritsen
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Leland
Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Fulton D. Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Lanneau D. Lide
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lortz
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David Lyle and Anne Aaron-Lyle
Mr. Joshua Martin
Dr. John Mattheis
Dr. and Mrs. Brem Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. James D. McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter C. Mead
The Nelson Mead Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Mirsky
Anne and Ben Moise
Mr. and Mrs. C. Lawrence Murphy
Dudley and Ann Myers
Mrs. Thomas E. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Nelson
Dr. and Mrs. Alan I. Nussbaum
Mr. and Ms. Robert M. Ogden III
Dr. and Mrs. J. David Osguthorpe
Mrs. Heather R. Osterfeld
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman C. Owens
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Parker
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Parks
Dr. and Mrs. B. Daniel Paysinger
Ms. Patricia A. Pierce
Mr. Frank W. Rambo
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ransome III
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rosengren
Mr. Richard B. Saxon
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schaller
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Scheetz, Jr.
Dickie and Mary Schweers
Sea Biscuit Café
Dr. Sally E. Self
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Simmons, Jr.
Dr. James G. Simpson
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Simpson, Jr.
Mr. G. Dana Sinkler
Dr. Cynthia P. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Mark C. Stamey
Dr. and Mrs. James Stephenson
Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Storen
Mrs. Margaretta Taylor
Mr. John H. Tiencken, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Timmons
Ms. Leslie Turner
Mr. Robert E. Turner IV
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Verity
Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Webb
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb
Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wells
Dr. Tad Whiteside
Mrs. Betty C. Wiggins
Dr. Dara H. Wilber
Ms. Walda Wildman and
Mr. Mack Maguire
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Williamson
Mr. Perry L. Wood
Live Oak Society
Chuck and Betsy Baker
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Barrett, Jr.
Mrs. Ann R. Baruch
Blackwater, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Blagden, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Boone III
Dr. Eloise Bradham and Dr. Mark George
The Brumley Family Foundation Trust
Ms. Amy Bunting
Ethel-James Westfeldt Bunting Foundation
Ms. Laura Donnelley
Bob and Cris Cain
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cart
Nancy and Billy Cave
Mr. Anthony Cecil
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Chaffin, Jr.
Mr. Elliott S. Close
Coastal Expeditions
Mr. and Mrs. James Coker
Mr. and Mrs. John Crawford
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Cross
Mr. and Mrs. Wade C. Crow
Mrs. Mary C. Cutler
Mr. R. Gordon Darby
Mrs. Jane Blair Bunting Darnell
Mrs. Emily Darnell-Nunez
Mrs. Palmer Davenport
Michael and Megan Desrosiers
Mr. and Mrs. F. Reed Dulany, Jr.
Ms. Carol B. Ervin
Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Ewing III
Ms. Margaret D. Fabri
Mr. H. McDonald Felder
Dr. Paula Feldman and
Mr. Peter Mugglestone
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Finch
Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Finley
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freeman
Mr. and Mrs. E. Stack Gately
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart, Jr.
The Good Works Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Gene W. Grace
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Hawkins
Mr. J. W. F. Holliday
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Horlbeck
Holly Houghton and David Walker
Mrs. Robert R. Huffman
Holly Jensen and Marty Morganello
Dr. William Kee
Ms. Nunally Kersh and Mr. Robert Stehling
Mrs. Dudley Knott
Mrs. Hugh C. Lane
Mr. Roy F. Laney
Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson
Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Leak
Charlie and Sally Lee
Dr. Franklin Lee
The Little-Reid Conservation Fund of the
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Kathie Livingston
Leighton and Caroline Lord
Tish Lynn
Mike and JoAnne Marcell
Kincaid and Allison Mills
Mrs. John L. McCormick
Ms. Jamie Young McCulloch
Mr. and Mrs. Barclay McFadden III
Mr. Gerald McGee
Thank You!
NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERSHIPS
February 1, 2009 – April 30, 2009
SPECIAL GIFTS
Mr. Steve C. Anderson
Mrs. Stephanie Auwaerter
William and Marilyn Blizard
Cecil and Barrie Bozard
Bob and Cris Cain
Mrs. Janet Ciegler
Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. Deason
Dr. Timothy K. Gray
Dr. Jerrold Griggs and Ms. Deynise Lau
Dr. and Mrs. Harlan G. Hawkins
Nora Kravec and Charles Cyr
Mr. and Mrs. Langdon D. Long
Mr. Donald McCall
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C Moorer, Jr.
Mr. Wayne Richard
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Rivers, Jr.
Dr. Robert E. Swanson II
Mrs. Pamela Thesing
Ms. Nancy Lee Trihey
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort
Mr. David Waldron
ADVOCATE ($250 - $499)
Anonymous (3)
Dr. Richard L. Beck
Mr. Rhett S. Bickley
Dr. P. Jeffrey Bower and Ms. Mignon Faget
Ms. Ethel S. Brody
Ms. Dorothy Coley and Mr. Robert Cross
Mr. Larry Creel
Nick and Jill Davidge Charitable Trust
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dias
Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Douglas III
Mr. Marion Tryon Face
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne R. Fanning
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Feldmann
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Freeman, Jr.
Mr. Andrew Geer
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Geer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Greene
Ms. Katharine M. Hartley
Senator Wes Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hays III
Mr. Hugh E. Jeffers
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Kistler
Jonathan Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles
Timothy J. Lyons, M.D.
Ms. Christie McGregor
Mr. William W. McKinnon
Charles and Lisa Menefee
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Miller
Mr. Lawrence H. Moser
Mr. Michael Murphy
Ms. Sis Nunnally
Mrs. Constance S. Parramore
Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Penny, Jr.
The Honorable Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
Reliance Financial Corporation
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Dr. Helen E. Sloan
Ms. Heather Spires
Dr. and Mrs. John G. Steedman
Mr. Richard Stuhr
Drs. Christine and C. Murry Thompson, Jr.
Mr. Edward Thoms
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Voight
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Mr. and Mrs. D. Mark Wilson
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CONTRIBUTOR ($100 - $249)
Ms. Kate B. Adams
Mr. Kenneth Adcock
AgSouth Farm Credit
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Mrs. Mary L. Ballou
The Rev. and Mrs. C. Alex Barron, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Elliott Barrow, Jr.
Mr. Chuck Bates
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Mr. Charles J. Bethea
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Boyd
Cecil and Barrie Bozard
Mel and Jack Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Prescott H. Brownell
Ms. Brenda Burbage
Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick H. Burr
Ms. Barbara H. Burwell
Ms. Paula W. Byers
Mrs. Cheryl K. Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Cartledge, Jr.
Mr. Frank B. Cates
Mr. William Chick III
Mr. and Mrs. David Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cohen
Sy and Betty Commanday
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Cowie
Dr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Cox
Dr. and Mrs. Joel R. Cox
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Davis
Mr. and Mrs F. Garey De Angelis
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Dodds
Dick and Dayna Elliott
Dr. J. Terrence Farris
Mrs. Theodora L. Feldberg
Rev. and Mrs. James Fenhagen
Mary Fleming Finlay
Mr. James Fitch
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foltz
Mr. Charles E. Foster
Mr. Robert M. Gallant
Ms. Marjorie T. Groom
Dr. Gail J. Guzzo
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hadley
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Harmon III
Ms. Rosemary Hartnett
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hawkins
Dr. Edward L. Hay
Dr. Jim and Jackie Hill
Sherry and Ken Hirsch
Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Hodges
Mr. Dwaine Holden
Mr. and Mrs. Woody House
Mrs. Dorothy R. Huggins
Ms. Joy Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Bowman P. Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Kasman
Matt and Cindy Kearney
Mr. Patrick R. Kelley
Ms. Jane Kramer
At the close of the 2009 Legislative
Session, the House and Senate
restored $2 million dollars plus
operating expenses to the S.C.
Conservation Bank. This critical
funding will allow the bank to
meet its current land preservation
obligations and continue to build on
its legacy of having protected more
than 152,000 acres of significant
lands since 2002.
Reg Daves
Conservation Bank Rescued!
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Ms. Julia Krebs and Mr. Roger Hux
Ms. Nancy M. Kreml
Miss Gretta Kruesi
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Larsen
Col. and Mrs. James H. Leach
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leadem
Mr. William Lesesne
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Logan
Mr. and Mrs. Langdon D. Long
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lynch
Mr. and Mrs. Robert O. Maguire
Dr. and Mrs. John C. Maize
Andrea Malloy
Mr. Fred J. Martschink III
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthew
Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Maxwell
Mrs. Margaret Ann May
Mr. J. Richards McCrae
Ms. Madeleine S. McGee
Tara McGrath and Doug Hatch
Ms. Eileen Mary McGuffie
Mr. and Mrs. James W. McIntire, Jr.
Dianne McKenzie
John and Joanne Milkereit
Mr. Warren Moise
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Moylan III
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Muench
Newkirk Environmental, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ohlandt
Palmetto Garden Club
Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Pringle, Jr.
Ms. Regina Przybysz
Mr. John L. Quigley, Jr.
Mr. Frank W. Rambo
Ms. Cheryl Randall
Mr. and Mrs. Marion M. Rice
Mrs. Anne M. Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Robertson
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Robling
Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Romano
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Romanosky
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Sampson
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Sanders, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Savary
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Schmaltz
Mr. and Mrs. George Schneider
Thank You!
Marge and Julian Harrison at the League’s 2002
Holiday Green Party.
In Memoriam:
Dr. Julian R. Harrison III
F
or many of us who arrived on the environmental
scene in Charleston in the 1970s and 1980s,
Julian Harrison was a great mentor and teacher,
never ceasing to share his knowledge and
fascination with the natural world, especially
when it came to amphibians and birds. The
Coastal Conservation League mourns the death of Dr.
Harrison, who was Professor Emeritus of Biology at the
College of Charleston from 1963 to 1994. He was 74
and had been a member of the Conservation League
since its founding.
Dr. Harrison led many a Charleston Natural History
Society field trip, an organization for which he served
for many years as President and which later became a
chapter of the National Audubon Society. In 1980, he
co-authored the field guide, Amphibians and Reptiles
of the Carolinas and Virginia, due to be re-released this
year by the University of North Carolina Press.
His obituary in the Post and Courier recounted his
respected career: “After retiring from the College
of Charleston, Dr. Harrison continued his work as a
professional herpetologist and naturalist. He was
widely recognized as an expert on the salamanders
of the southeastern U.S. In 2003, he described a
new species of salamander, Eurycea chamberlaini,”
which he named in honor of his childhood mentor, E.
Burnham Chamberlain, Curator of Natural History at
the Charleston Museum.
Former Conservation League Program Director
Jane Lareau remembers Dr. Harrison: “Julian was a
wonderful man in so many ways. Always a delight to
spend time with. Kind, thoughtful, looking for ways
to help. One of those rare human beings.” He will be
missed.
Ms. Prudence Scott
Mr. John M. Shaffer
Mr. and Mrs. David V. Shuckstes
Mr. Mark Sloan and Ms. Michelle Van Parys
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. C. Harwin Smith
South Carolina Forestry Association
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Stone, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. S. David Stoney, Jr.
Mr. Glenn Storck and Ms. Susan Harrington
Dr. and Mrs. Luther M. Strayer III
Brandy and Sean Sullivan
Dr. and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall III
Mr. William B. Talbert, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Edmund R. Taylor
Louis and Jane Theiling
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Thomas
Ms. Ann Timberlake and Mr. Ben Gregg
Dr. Eugene Vasilew
Mrs. Alice O. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred White
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. White
Dr. Susan White and Mr. Brian Smith
Dr. and Mrs. T.D. Williams III
Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Wingard
Ms. Patricia Wolman
SUPPORTER ($50 - $99)
Anonymous (2)
Ms. Margaret W. Abrams
Dr. and Mrs. William D. Anderson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Austin
Mr. and Mrs. Jason T. Ayers
John and Laura Baker
Mr. Michael Banyas
Mr. Weldon P. Barker
Barrier Island Eco Tours
Edward and Adelaida Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Berchem
Dr. Colum Boyland and Dr. Deo Boyland
Mr. Jack Brantley
Dr. Jack Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Burns
Ms. Randy Cabell
Alyssondra Campaigne
Ms. Deborah Campbell-Lawson
Mr. Timothy Carens
Ms. Margaret H. Carter
Ms. Michelle Chavez
Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Clauss
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh V. Coleman
Brian Cook
Mr. Paul Cooper
Mrs. Drucilla C. Copeland
Ms. Margaret Cormack
Mr. Woody Cox
Mrs. Angela Creed
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Croffead
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Currie
Ms. Marilyn W. Curry
Ms. Anne Cyran
Mr. J. Dwight Dana
Daufuskie Island Conservancy
Ms. Lee Depret-Bixio
Dr. Dorothy A. Doniphan
Dr. and Mrs. William W. Duke
Mr. Joe Dukes
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Ms. Susan K. Dunn
Ms. Patricia Dwight
Mrs. Carolyn Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Feldman
Mr. Stewart Fenimore and
Ms. Gretchen Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fitts
Mr. and Mrs. E. Gregorie Frampton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freeman
Dr. Charles E. Friedman
Mrs. Shirley M. Fry
Mr. William H. Frye
Mr. John W. Glenn
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Goodwin
Mr. and Mrs. Albert I. Grabb
Mr. C. Wesley Grady
Dr. Jerrold Griggs and Ms. Deynise Lau
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Grimsley III
Mr. Roland T. Harper, Jr.
Mrs. Margaret N. Harris
Mr. Jonathan N. Harvey
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hassell
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Timothy L. Holt
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Hough
Mr. Steve Humbert
Ms. Bonnie L. Ideal
Mrs. Evelyn S. Irwin
Nancy and Ricky James
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. James
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gwyn Jordan
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson D. Kirby III
Mr. and Mrs. Randolph W. Kirkland
Mrs. Sallie Kirven
Mr. Kurt W. Krucke
Ms. Catherine Ksenzak
Ms. Pam Kylstra
Ms. Angelyn M. Ladue
Ms. Pat Levi
Ms. Peggy W. Levinson
Dr. Susan Libes
Mr. and Mrs. Cisco Lindsey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lockwood
Marilyn H. Long
Mr. and Mrs. C. Donald Lord, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Danforth Loring
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mack
Patrick and Valerie Mauldin
Ms. Lucy E. Maxwell
Mr. J.C. McElveen, Jr.
Mr. Joey McKinnon
Mrs. Elizabeth C. McLean
Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Michaels
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Miller, Jr.
Dr. Page Putnam Miller
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Montgomery
Dr. Richard Moore and Ms. M. Robin Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Morton
Mr. and Mrs. Arvin R. Mosier
Ms. Kathleen H. Nolan
Ms. Teri Norris
Mrs. Hierome L. Opie
Mr. Samuel P. Parker, Jr.
Mr. Lionel Pasiuk
Mr. and Mrs. William Perry
Mr. David L. Porter
Thank You!
Eugenia Payne
Joins Staff
E
ugenia Payne, freelance writer
and communications consultant,
has joined the staff of the
Coastal Conservation League
as the Assistant to the Director,
Dana Beach. A Charleston
native, Eugenia is a graduate
of Porter Gaud and the College of
Charleston, where she earned a B.A. in
Anthropology.
Before coming to the Conservation
League, Eugenia worked for a variety
of
conservation
organizations,
publishers and publications, including
Island Press of Washington, DC,
the Urban Land Institute, Wired
magazine in San Francisco, and Garden
and Gun magazine in Charleston.
As a writer, Eugenia has focused, in
particular, on sustainability and design. A dedicated conservationist, she has
volunteered in numerous capacities
with the League and other conservation
organizations. Welcome Eugenia!
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Scelfo
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Dr. Katherine Saenger
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Mr. Michael T. Swomley
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Ms. Mareta Thompson and Mr. Phil Dillon
Mr. Russell E. Thompson
Mr. John Tibbetts and
Ms. Catherine Fahey
Mr. Roger D. Van Horsen
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Vogel
Dr. Harshad Vyas
Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Walker
Mrs. William H. Wallace, Jr.
Mrs. John S. Whaley
Mr. and Mrs. Hans J. Wiegert
Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Williams
Mrs. Johnnie L. Witt
REGULAR ($30 - $49)
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Agee
Mr. William F. Aull
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Ms. Carol Padgett Black
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Ms. Susan Breslin
Lara Byrns
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Camp
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cheatham
Diann Clark
Mr. Michael Cline and
Ms. Jennifer Mathis
Ms. Kathleen M. Coats
Mr. Calvin Cobb
Rev. Jacqueline A. Collins
Mr. Gerald D. Cowart
Mr. Glenn Dalhart
Mr. Tyler Davidson
Ms. Nancy Johnson De Merell
Mr. and Mrs. Morris K. Deason
Mr. and Mrs. Henry X. Diercxsens
Capt. Robert A. Doyle USMC
Ms. Sylvia K. Dreyfus
Mr. Walter V. Duane
Ms. Susan Durkalski
Mr. Patrick H. Eager
Dr. Linda C. Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Ewing
Mr. Fred Fellers III
Mr. Raymond A. Fisher
Mrs. Diane Fosnocht
Mr. Charles A. Fox
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Fugitt
Ms. Mary Garren
Ms. Charlotte R. Gonzalez
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Greaves
Mrs. Ann Fripp Hampton
Mr. Charles A. Harrison
Ms. Molli M. Hartzog
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Harvey III
Mr. G. Barrie Heinzenknecht
Mrs. Toni O. Hendrix
Katherine Hillock
Ms. Morna L. Hollister
Ms. Eva Horry
Mr. Allen B. Hutchison
Rep. and Mrs. Heyward G. Hutson
Mr. and Mrs. Graeme H. Johnson
Mr. Philip H. Jos
Miss Rachael Kefalos
Ms. Susan Kern
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Mr. Fred W. Kinard, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion A. Knox
Mrs. Wendy Kulick
Ms. Beverly G. Lane
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Larence
Dr. and Mrs. Gary Leonard
Dr. and Mrs. Paul Levy
Dr. Julian R. Lewin
Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton F. Liber
Mrs. Ellen Lovelady
Ms. Marcia M. Lucius
Mrs. Patti Manigault
Ms. Deirdre C. Mays
Sophia C. McAllister
Mr. and Mrs. Scott McNair
Mr. Charles L. Measter
Ms. Constance B. Merwin
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Miller
Ms. Anita Moran
Mr. Thomas O'Neal and
Ms. Helen Drivas
Mr. Charles N. O'Quinn
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Olivier
Mrs. Mary Ellen Page
Ms. Mary L. Patten
Ms. Debbie Petrovich
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter R. Pettus, Jr.
Ms. Patricia Powers
Mr. William Pregnall
Mrs. Mary Pringle
Mrs. Sarah G. Pringle
Mr. and Mrs. S. Paul Ramsey
Mrs. Anne Rhett
Ms. Bryn O. Richard
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Rickenbaker, Jr.
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Ms. Janice E. Rideout
Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Robey
Ms. M. Traylor Rucker
Ms. Meredith Russo
Mrs. Sara O. Ryals
Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Salisbury, Jr.
Dr. Steven D. Shapiro
Jessi Shuler
Dr. Paul Siegel
Mr. and Mrs. John Siegling
Dr. Peter L. Silveston
Ms. Jessica Smith
Ileana Strauch
Ms. Merike Tamm
Mr. William C. Twitty, P.E.
Mr. Art von Lehe
Wendy Wicke
J. Williams
Dr. and Mrs. Ray L. Wilson, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Winfield
Dr. and Mrs. Allan S. Yard
STUDENT ($15 - $29)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Beattie
Mr. David H. Brophy
Ms. Pam Creech
Mrs. John H. Cronly
Mr. and Mrs. Brad DeVos
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Dragun
Mr. Morris P. Ferris
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Flood
Mr. Martin G. Gipe, Sr.
Mr. C. L. Graham
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Green
Mr. Roger R. Lebel
Mr. Thomas Lipinski
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Miller
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Painter
Mr. Frank Procaccini
Ms. Nikki Seibert
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Smolen
Ms. Helene Snyder
Ms. Elizabeth Stafford
Mrs. Mary M. Storen
Mr. Peter S. Uzdavinis
Dr. and Mrs. Jack M. Valpey
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Wolf
Clean Water Matters
Buist Academy 5th grade
students Thomas Lehman
and John Michael Wager
discuss with Charleston
Mayor Joe Riley the results
of their Clean Water
Conservation project,
including ways that the City
of Charleston might filter its
stormwater before it drains
into Charleston Harbor.
Conservation League Project
Manager Katie Zimmerman
advised John Michael and
Thomas on their study.
Thank You!
Charlotte Caldwell
IN KIND DONATIONS
HONOR/MEMORIALS
In Memory of Mrs. Patti Armstrong
Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Ager
Dr. Colum Boyland and
Dr. Deo Boyland
Ms. Theresa L. Brady
Michael and Megan Desrosiers
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Flood
Mr. and Mrs. D. Cabell Gilley
Mrs. Dorothy P. Gnann
Ms. Holly H. Hook and
Mr. Dennis A. Glaves
Mr. and Mrs. J. William Ogden
Dr. and Mrs. Scott C. Shaffer
Mrs. Mary K. Sine
Mrs. George L. Tucker
In Memory of Mr. William Brown
Mrs. Octavia M. Mahon
In Memory of Mrs. Clara Elmore
In Memory of Mrs. Faye Fishburne
In Memory of Mr. Louis Warmouth
In Memory of Mr. William B. Gibson
In Memory of Mr. Henry P. Worrell
In Memory of Mr. Marion Lucas
In Memory of Col. W. H. Nelson
In Memory of Mr. Frank Rhett
Mrs. Anne Rhett
In Memory of Mrs. Rosa Schwartz
In Memory of Mr. J. Stuart Levi
Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Storen
In Honor of Allie E. Swanson
In Memory of Mrs. Dorothea Wray
GIFTS OF MEMBERSHIP
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Beattie for
Mr. Nicholas Beattie
Ms. Amanda Griffith for
Ms. Marjorie Herbert
Ms. Amanda Griffith for
Ms. Virginia P. Herbert
Col. and Mrs. Paul J. Sykes for
Miss Elizabeth Sykes
Mr. and Mrs. Arch W. Templeton
for Ms. Linda L. Marshall
Tom Blagden
Peter Brown, McGill University
Tom Butler, Wildlands Philanthropy
J.W. Nelson Chandler
Celie Dailey
Dan Dickison
Dr. Jean Everett
Mary Edna Fraser
Henry Hagerty
The Inn at Palmetto Bluff
Will Lindsey
Honor Marks
MESSA
John Moore
Mark Purcell, FWS Grove Plantation
Nikki Seibert
T. Grange Simons
Stephanie Visser
Cara White, Independent Lens Community Cinema
Maria Whitehead
MATCHING GIFTS
GE Foundation
Grainger Matching Charitable Gifts Program
IBM International Foundation
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
Central Carolina Community Foundation
Central Carolina Community Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson Escrow Fund
Coastal Community Foundation
Amanda’s Fund
Anonymous Fund
Colbert Family Fund
Houghton Fund
Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment
The Millbrook Fund
Joanne and Alan Moses Fund
Owen/McClinton Family Fund
Fred E. Pittman Fund
Pomerantz-Wilcox Family Fund
Mayo and Posey Myers Read Fund
Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, Inc.
Jay and Jennifer Mills Fund
Community Foundation of Greenville, Inc.
Jim Gilreath Family Fund
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, Inc.
Berry and Ruthie Edwards Giving Back Fund
Martha C. Worthy Charitable Fund
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina
Alexander and Laurinda Schenck Fund
Foundation for the Carolinas
Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr.
The New York Community Trust
The Barns Fund
The Bohemia Fund
Feldman Family Fund
The John Winthrop Fund
Pasadena Community Foundation
Gay S. Huffman Fund
The Pittsburgh Foundation
F.E. Agnew Family Fund
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Don’t Miss A
Behind the Scenes
Tour of the
Charleston Battery
“Green” Stadium
Conservation League, check out our Web site
Friday, July 24th
at www.CoastalConservationLeague.org
P.O. Box 1765
Charleston, SC 29402-1765
For more information about the Coastal
Tour starts at 5:30pm, led by
Andrew Bell, President of the
Charleston Battery.
$5 for League members.
Includes pre-game stadium
tour, tickets to the soccer game
at 7:30pm – Charleston
Battery vs. Carolina
Railhawks – and a
post-game Fireworks Spectacular.
Contact Troy Lawrence
at Charleston Battery for
reservations:
Call (843) 971-4625 ext.215
or email at Troy.Lawrence@
CharlestonBattery.com.
Celebrating
20
Years
The mission of the Coastal Conservation League is to protect the
natural environment of the South Carolina coastal plain and to enhance the
quality of life of our communities by working with individuals, businesses
and government to ensure balanced solutions.
Fun!
Summer
photos by Dana Beach
...in the clean waters and clean air
of the South Carolina coast.
Cover Artist: After 32 years
of serving on education and
conservation nonprofit boards, cover
artist Charlotte Caldwell has
shifted her focus back to a childhood
passion – photography. Behind a
camera lens she focuses on the
intimate and miraculous, common
occurrences happening all around
us – a butterfly emerging from its
chrysalis, the dynamics between
a grizzly bear and a gray wolf, or
the mist rising from a bald cypress
swamp at first light. To view more
of her work, as well as an array of
original note cards for purchase,
please visit her Web site at
www.CharlotteCaldwell.com.

Summer 2009: Click to pdf

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