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High bluffs are being saved near Congaree National Park. Audubon South Carolina is acquiring the land from long-time landowners in Calhoun County.

As a more complete, and complex, portrait has emerged of John James Audubon, birders and ornithologists have struggled to reconcile their missions with the troubling aspects of his legacy: buying and selling slaves, plagiarism and the exploitation of natural resources.