Our state has a well-deserved reputation for protecting its most sensitive landscapes, primarily because of the South Carolina Conservation Bank s success leveraging other governmental and private contributions to conserve more
As a field biologist, Keith Perchemlides has often watched flames dance around tiny ponds that mark the remains of a vast wetland that once covered a large part of southwestern Oregon’s Rogue River Valley. Often, he was the one that set fire to the dry grass. Back then, he was working for The Nature Conservancy […]
Over the 20 years that the Conservation Voters of South Carolina (CVSC) has scored legislators on how green they vote, one thing is clear: They’re voting greener. Perhaps that indicates
In June, the General Assembly reconvened to pass the state’s budget. H. 5150, South Carolina’s General Appropriations bill for the Fiscal Year of 2021-2022, solidified funding for …
Energy companies buy protections from the conservation bank for the areas known as “strongholds,” while conducting certain conservation practices on lands amid their operations, and in exchange are exempted from future restrictions should the species ultimately be listed.