The Marsh Tackies, or Carolina Marsh Tackies, became South Carolina’s official state heritage horse when Gov. Mark Sanford signed Senate Bill No. 1030 on June 11, 2010.
A National Aviary researcher was wading in the waters of hardwood bottomlands in Louisiana. Then, whoosh: A large black bird with bright distinctive white markings — which he believed to be the ivory-billed woodpecker — flushed from a snag. Steven Latta watched the Holy Grail of birds for six to