Winter 2009 ■ Volume 20 No.4 ConservationCoastal League

Celebrating 20 Making Our Voice Heard Years

photograph by Sam Holland From the Director

All Politics is Local. . . Almost

Winter 2009 Vol. 20 No. 4 he Conservation League is founded effort to turn the on the belief that the most bill around in ______Staff important conservation work to the Senate and Director Dana Beach be done on the coast is local. We subsequently ______Regional Offices_____ organized twenty years ago to to pass the counter the explosion of sprawl nation’s strongest South Coast that was consuming our rural and hog factory Office Director Garrett Budds T Project Manager Reed Armstrong natural landscapes. Our earliest efforts standards. This Project Manager Andrea Malloy focused on improving county and city land law effectively NORTH Coast Office Director Nancy Cave use plans and zoning codes. We fought shut the hog Program Director Grace Gasper region-changing developments on places industry out of COLUMBIA like Sandy Island, blocked sprawl-inducing the state. Office Director Patrick Moore Director of Govt. Relations Dennis Glaves sewer and water lines and new highways, In 2002, Christie McGregor took over Govt. Relations Coordinator Merrill McGregor and prevented the contamination of coastal as the Conservation League’s Legislative rivers and streams from sources like factory Director. Christie had worked jointly ______P______rograms______Dir. of Conservation Programs Megan Desrosiers hog operations. Local is where the action for The Nature Conservancy and the Program Directors Nancy Vinson Josh Martin was, and there it remains today. Conservation League to pass the S.C. Hamilton Davis So what business have we in the Conservation Bank Act in the 2001 Project Managers Katie Zimmerman Kate Parks Legislature? In spite of the lack of a state legislative session. Patty Pierce and Communications Manager Gretta Kruesi planning structure, legislative decisions Heather Spires joined the lobby team have an enormous impact on the potential in 2007 and 2008, and coordinated our ______Development for good or bad local outcomes. One of efforts to reform the Department of Director Courtenay Speir Development Associate Dana Moorer the first battles we fought in Columbia Transportation, to maintain and increase was over “Takings” bills. Under the guise funding for the Conservation Bank, to ______Administration______of protecting property rights, these laws defeat Takings legislation, to maintain Director of Administration Cathy Forrester would have eliminated the ability of towns, the integrity of the permitting process, to HR and Admin. Tonnia Switzer Director of Finance Ashley Waters cities and counties to plan for future improve state energy efficiency standards, Data Manager Nora Kravec Administrative Assistant Angela Chvarak growth by requiring them to pay property and to stop the flow of out-of-state garbage Development/Finance Assistant Amanda Watson owners when new zoning codes were into South Carolina. Assistant to the Director Eugenia Payne enacted or existing codes were changed. Patrick Moore joined the Columbia Board of Directors Virtually every year between 1995 and staff in 2009, working on annexation Laura Gates, Chair 2002, we opposed Takings bills sponsored reform and assisting Heather in William Cogswell Fred Lincoln Andrea Ziff Cooper Cartter Lupton by development lobbyists. And every year overcoming vigorous industry opposition Berry Edwards Roy Richards Dorothea Benton Frank Jeffrey Schutz we won. Nancy Vinson served as our to protecting water flows in the state’s rivers Richard T. Hale Harriet Smartt lobbyist until 2000, commuting between and streams. Hank Holliday Libby Smith Holly Hook Victoria C. Verity Charleston and Columbia. When the It almost goes without saying that workload became too great, we opened sustained work in Columbia is essential to Advisors and Committee Members Paul Kimball a Columbia office with Nancy Stone- maintaining a healthy coast, particularly Hugh Lane Collum as our first full-time legislative in a state with one of the most dominant Jay Mills representative. legislatures in the nation. But deciding Newsletter Editor Virginia Beach Also in 1995, hog industry lobbyists what legislative battles we take on demands Designer Julie Frye persuaded a majority of the South Carolina that we always measure the potential House to remove local control over benefits where it matters most – in the P.O. Box 1765 ■ charleston, SC 29402 factory hog operations. The same type communities and the natural landscapes of Phone: (843) 723-8035 ■ faX: (843) 723-8308 Email: [email protected] of law passed in North Carolina in the the South Carolina coast. Web site: www.CoastalConservationLeague.org early 1990s and precipitated the flood of P.O. Box 1861 ■ Beaufort, SC 29901 hogs and waste that devastated rivers and Phone: (843) 522-1800 streams when lagoons overflowed during 935 Main Street, No. 1 ■ columbia, SC 29201 Hurricane Floyd. Nancy Vinson led the Phone: (803) 771-7102 P.O. Box 603 ■ Georgetown, SC 29442 Phone: (843) 545-0403

All contents herein are copyright of the Coastal Conservation League. Reprinting is strictly prohibited without written consent. Cover photo by Sam Holland Conservation Agenda The 118th South Carolina General Assembly A Challenging Session Ahead

This year marks the Coastal Conservation League’s 20th anniversary and another successful year of advocacy at the State House. However, the 2009 Legislative Session was unlike any we have seen in recent history – a shortened session marked by furloughs and overriding concerns about the state’s budget shortfall.

espite this challenging environment, the Highlights of the Conservation League’s Conservation League’s legislative team 2010 Legislative Agenda successfully advanced several items on our n Energy Efficiency and Renewables Legislation conservation agenda, including improved 1) S.547 creates an energy efficiency resource standard that requires energy standards for residential building that energy efficiency goals be met by a certain time. codes, restoration of some funding to 2) H.3628 reinstates the state Renewable Energy Infrastructure Fund. D the state Conservation Bank, improved solid waste regulations that reduce the potential for n Taxpayer Protection through Annexation Reform – H.3253 mega-landfills in the state, and progress towards 1) Redefines statutory standing so that citizens negatively affected by consensus on a Fair Share water bill. annexation proposals are empowered to challenge them. We anticipate another 2) Improves public notice requirements. shortened session in 2010, 3) Requires annexing municipalities to publish a “Plan of Services” once again dominated by prior to approval of all annexation proposals. budget concerns, overlapping 4) Ensures all annexations are consistent with local land use plans. subcommittee meetings, 5) Limits inappropriate “shoestring” annexations of remote properties. and few opportunities for public hearings. But with n Fair Share Water Bill – S.452 your help, we can maintain a 1) Establishes a water withdrawal permitting program for S.C. strong voice for conservation. 2) Sets a minimum water flow standard based on seasonal variations We will continue to that mimic natural river flows. work to advance those bills carried over from last year that addressed annexation reform, water n Sustain the Conservation Bank withdrawal, energy efficiency and clean energy. The S.C. Conservation Bank has protected more than 152,000 Interestingly, as we move through the economic acres of South Carolina’s most valuable natural resources. Protecting crisis, there has been a fundamental shift in how ecologically significant lands and historic sites since 2004, the growth and sustainability are viewed. A national Conservation Bank is one of the most productive state agencies, focus on the things that define our communities providing more than six dollars of taxpayer value for every one dollar – energy use, water stewardship, and public health of public monies spent. The Conservation League will continue to protection – has emerged. South Carolina is no advocate for fair funding of the Conservation Bank. different and the 2010 session offers a chance for members to get involved in these critical issues of our time.

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When Conservation Becomes A Public Purpose Tenacious advocacy on the part of the Conservation League, combined with persistent citizen involvement and scrutiny, elevate environmental agenda

ince its founding 20 years Thank Heavens for the Coastal Conservation League. Nancy, Jane, ago, the Coastal Conservation League has grown to be and Dana, along with many other professionals and volunteers, S a major political player have made a difference in South Carolina. I can't imagine how the in South Carolina. It was not until 2000 that the Conservation League Legislature would be able to help look after our state's precious opened a permanent legislative office in coastal resources without them. Knowledgeable, insightful, Columbia. Yet, even in that first decade of commuting between Charleston and resourceful with boundless energy, it is a pleasure to work with the the State House – when staffers Nancy Conservation League. Happy Birthday CCL and thank you, Dana, for Vinson and Jane Lareau were fighting the factory hog industry – the young your vision. – Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) environmental group was gaining the ear of the General Assembly. Lawmakers quickly found they could trust the and a whole host of actions on the state What follows is a sampling of the reasoned analysis of the League and trust level that affect South Carolinians in Conservation League’s 20-year record that a strong, informed citizenry was their everyday lives.” of State House advocacy for greater backing it up. Creating an environmentally sound protection of South Carolina’s lands, “We’ve always seen our role as one vision of the future and helping citizens waters and public health. There are of facilitating citizen involvement in the and their representatives realize that accounts of successful battles waged arena of public decision making,” says vision is no small task. Over the last against massive swine slaughterhouses, League founder and Executive Director two decades, the League has developed Cooper River polluters, and extreme Dana Beach. “The goal is to see that our long-term, working partnerships with Takings legislation, while at the same beautiful environment and exceptional state legislators and countless other time, stories of remarkable coalitions quality of life are safeguarded by the best environmental and public interest of stakeholders coming together to policy decisions possible in land use and groups. These partnerships across the dedicate permanent public funding for transportation planning, environmental state have resulted in legislation and land preservation, pass a Neighborhood permitting, state legislation and policy reform that enhance the quality Schools Act, and reform transportation regulations, public funding for land of life of our local communities, both policy and criteria for new road conservation, infrastructure investment large and small. building in South Carolina.

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Round One of the Hog Fight

t’s mid-May of 1995 and thanks to an impressive outpouring of calls and letters from Conservation League members, plus months of work by League staff I members Nancy Vinson and Jane Lareau, the S.C. Senate has taken decisive action against factory hog farms after a heated floor fight. In the end, the Senate passes an unprecedented moratorium on swine operations that are poised to enter the Palmetto State from across the border in North Carolina. Next, Governor David Beasley announces that his administration is no longer recruiting the Iowa Beef Products (IBP) hog slaughterhouse that had been eyeing Marion County. Both actions go a long way toward giving South Carolinians the tools they need – and the time they need – to protect themselves from the kinds of environmental and community disasters other states with large factory hog farms have experienced. Protecting the People – At the urging of Pee Dee farmers The Conservation League is delighted with this “half- and the Conservation League, Governor signs time” victory, which will make it difficult for corporate legislation strengthening factory hog farming regulations. agri-business to achieve the density of hogs per acre needed to support a major slaughterhouse until strong regulations Together, we have worked to ensure a clean, bright can be put in place to protect residents and the environment future for South Carolina and have opposed those from the waste produced by these swine factories. However, despite these impressive strides, the Conservation League who have tried to make us a dump for out-of-state believes the state needs to do more. waste. Now, we face the energy challenge of Even though Governor Beasley’s administration is not actively recruiting IBP, the massive slaughterhouse tomorrow, where efficiency must become an active can still locate here and, in fact, is actively considering and attainable goal to ensuring affordable energy South Carolina. Miraculously, by the following year, the Conservation League has achieved the unthinkable for a without a declining standard of living. poor, southern state. Even with IBP and Smithfield Foods, – President Pro Tempore of the S.C. Senate, two of the nation’s most powerful pork producers, courting the Governor and the General Assembly, the League Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) persuades legislators in the House and Senate to pass the strictest factory hog farm regulations – and most protective of water quality – in the nation.

Water Qualilty Under Siege

f the Cooper River industry lobby had gotten its way in the late 1990s, special interests around the state could easily have sabotaged the health of our precious I waterways. But thanks to the diligent work of Senators Arthur Ravenel, Glenn McConnell, Brad Hutto and Phil Leventis, in partnership with League Water Quality Director Nancy Vinson, the General Assembly passed a bill that better Clean Water is a Birthright – (l-r) League Water protects South Carolina’s rivers from industrial pollution. Quality Director Nancy Vinson worked with Senators Glenn In 1998, the General Assembly passed new rules that McConnell, Arthur Ravenel and Brad Hutto in the 1990s to allowed additional pollutants to be dumped into various rivers strengthen water quality regulations.

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around the state, including the Cooper with new legislation that required users and the Waccamaw. The new rules were to make their case to the Department pushed through by the Cooper River of Natural Resources (DNR) instead

Water Users Association – an alliance of to the Department of Health and Beach Dana of industries and utilities that discharge Environmental Control (DHEC). millions of gallons of waste into the But when the Cooper River Water Cooper River each year – and endorsed Users discovered that they would have by DHEC, despite the fact that 20% to provide rigorous scientific proof that of the users had violated their waste additional discharges would not harm discharge permits over the preceding shellfish and juvenile fish, they balked. two years. Then Nancy Vinson stepped in and was Early in 1999, Senators McConnell able to broker an agreement between and Ravenel introduced a bill that the users and the senators that kept the simply reversed the previous year’s senators’ important provision intact and damaging legislation. However, it soon allowed the more stringent regulations became clear that this bill would go to become law. As Senator McConnell nowhere; the Cooper River industries stated, “It was a great day for the state. and utilities had too many lobbyists on It gave us a manageable water quality their payroll. So the senators came up standard to protect our rivers.”

The Burden Lifted It has been gratifying to work with the Coastal Conservation League in attempting to protect my district as well as preserve and adhere hen the “inordinate burden” bill came to a lifetime aim as it relates to the environment. Clean water and barreling out of the House in 1997, many clean air are a birthright. They are sacrosanct and must be passed on W people feared that it to our children. – Senator Gerald Malloy (D-Darlington) could not be stopped. The proposed law, similar to Takings bills being measures that protect quality of life and examine the bill. League Director introduced across the country in conserve natural resources – measures Dana Beach briefed the senators on state legislatures, had been vigorously such as basic zoning, tree ordinances, Dr. Fishkind’s fiscal impact study and promoted by a statewide coalition historic preservation ordinances, raised such serious questions about the of developer, billboard and factory billboard controls and water quality legislation that the subcommittee felt farming interests. The legislation standards. compelled to set aside considerable time promised cash payment to landowners In March of that year, the for more hearings and deliberation. who claimed that their property Conservation League released a powerful Meanwhile, the Conservation had been inordinately burdened by report drafted by Florida economist Dr. League had launched a “Beat the Henry Fishkind and a team of expert Burden” campaign, conducting appraisers, developers, planners and mailings and building a database of attorneys. Their analysis revealed that activists, who were speaking out at Takings legislation would cost the State hearings, writings letters to the editors of South Carolina more than $126 of major newspapers across the state, million in the first year alone, with most and educating the public about this of that going to pay for attorneys and harmful legislation. Eventually, the appraisers’ fees and other litigation and League’s Beat the Burden campaign administration costs. created such doubt regarding Takings On April 8th, Senator McConnell legislation that the proposed bill invited the public to address a special never made it out of the Senate Senate subcommittee convened to subcommittee.

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A Land Bank for South Carolina

ike clockwork, harmful Takings legislation continued to be introduced annually in the S.C. General Assembly, and year L after year, the Conservation League and its allies were there to beat it back. In contrast, in 2001, legislation with a completely different purpose and Courier Courtesy of the Post was drafted – the S.C. Conservation Bank Act. Introduced in the House by Rep. Chip Campsen and in the Senate by Sen. John Drummond, the legislation proposed to direct millions of dollars annually to a state conservation bank for the purpose of buying and protecting South Carolina’s most Land Legacy – A public commitment to land conservation is paying dividends environmentally significant and historic in the Palmetto State. properties. At the time, South Carolina was losing 200 acres a day of rural land to Congratulations to the Coastal Conservation League on their 20th development, with no dedicated public anniversary. I am proud to be a long-time member, for we have been funds for land protection. Meanwhile, states like Florida and Maryland in the forefront of multiple efforts to conserve the Palmetto State’s were spending hundreds of millions natural resources and beauty. We have advanced conservation public of dollars each year to permanently protect their special places. So critical policy, which has helped create a greater awareness of environmental was this proposed legislation to land issues. I appreciate the dedication of the Coastal Conservation conservation in South Carolina that the Conservation League joined with The League’s staff and the many financial supporters. Nature Conservancy to hire Christie – Senator John Courson (R-Richland) McGregor as a full-time Land Legacy Initiative Coordinator. Her mission? To get the S.C. Conservation Bank Act botanists, ecologists and conservationists and Senate and was signed into law by passed. joined in the mapping effort. Governor Jim Hodges. The seeds for such landmark Once the most important lands and legislation were sown back in 1997, sites were identified, Beach and other when League Director Dana Beach members of the committee began a organized a steering committee series of discussions on how to fund for what would become the S.C. acquisition or protection of these Landscape Mapping Project, a plan properties. Conservationist Charles to identify high priority conservation Lane proposed the land bank idea lands in South Carolina. The steering to Rep. Campsen, who crafted a bill committee included the Conservation that would set aside a percentage of League, Ducks Unlimited, The Nature South Carolina’s real estate transfer fee Conservancy, the Lowcountry Open – about $8-to-$10 million annually Land Trust, MeadWestvaco, the ACE – to preserve the state’s natural and Mapping the Palmetto State – Basin Task Force and the Audubon historic sites. On April 18th, 2002, The S.C. Landscape Mapping Project Society. More than 75 of the state’s the Conservation Bank Act – five years identified the state’s most environmentally leading biologists, foresters, historians, in the making – cleared the House significant and historic properties.

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Neighborhood Schools acreage requirements for new schools were higher than in other n 1999, the Conservation states, forcing school districts to League asked summer seek cheaper land far from town intern Christopher Kouri, and inducing unnecessary sprawl of Duke University’s along the way. Often, new I Institute of Public Policy, school sites would be selected to survey 200 public schools by real estate developers and throughout the Lowcountry either sold cheaply or donated about their size, location and to the school system. In fact, a accessibility. Chris and a team of new school would boost nearby volunteers documented that new property values of what was schools were far less walkable than formerly cheap land located far schools built in earlier decades. from a town center or services. They also found that new school To address this disconnect sites were much larger than they between good community needed to be, and consequently planning and school siting, the were forced to locate at the edge Conservation League urged of communities rather than at the state Superintendent of their center. Education, Inez Tenenbaum, In addition, due to the to establish a committee of growing distance between architects, engineers and school home and school, parents administrators to revise the The Coastal Conservation League has been were becoming less involved voluminous “School Facilities outstanding in providing information to elected in their children’s schools. So Planning and Construction not only were children losing Guide” to allow for more officials on issues and policies that protect the opportunity for the healthy flexibility at the local level for the environment and green spaces. Our local and rich experience of walking siting and designing community or biking to school, the study friendly schools. In 2003, the communities have benefited greatly from smart concluded, but the chance for committee’s work resulted in the land use and infrastructure policies. I applaud greater parental and community passage of the Neighborhood involvement in children’s Schools Act, which lessened the hard work of the Coastal Conservation education was diminished as well. minimum acreage requirements, League in maintaining our quality of life. What Chris discovered was thus promoting the construction that South Carolina’s minimum of smaller neighborhood schools. Representative Robert Brown (D-Charleston)

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Visit the following Web sites and get connected with what’s happening at the South Carolina State House: www.CoastalConservationLeague.org www.ConservationVotersofSC.org www.SCStateHouse.gov

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Reforming DOT As author of the S. C. Conservation Bank, I can always count on

or decades, transportation the Conservation League to stand with me in the fight to keep the planning in South Carolina was Bank funded to preserve South Carolina’s exceptional quality of life. a shoot from the hip, seat of the pants affair. Just who got to Recently, the League has been an invaluable ally in my efforts to F decide when a new road should ensure that our riverine ecosystems – and the public’s right to enjoy be built and on what rationale was a mystery. There was no requirement for those ecosystems – take precedence over future industrial users as road projects to be objectively analyzed we hammer out surface water permitting legislation. The talent and to determine whether they would improve traffic flow or make it worse. resources the League brings to bear on these and other conservation No one was charged with looking at less issues are nonpareil. – Senator Chip Campsen (R-Charleston) costly alternatives to reduce congestion. Instead, our state Department of Transportation (DOT) was spending a small town wanted a bypass or a well billions of public dollars on projects connected developer needed a new road that failed to address South Carolina’s to serve his property, one would simply most pressing transportation challenges. get a politician to put it on the DOT For example, if the powerful mayor of agenda and lobby hard to get priority ranking. Soon the wheels would be set in motion for expensive studies, permit applications, matching funds and condemnations until the project gained enough momentum that it couldn’t be stopped. Lacking a long-term vision for the state’s transportation needs and lacking The bill that emerged after much an understanding of the relationship debate included several transportation between land use and transportation, improvement priorities developed by DOT consistently lavished enormous the League, including timely public amounts of our tax monies on projects hearings, funding priority given to that benefited special interests at the roads and bridges consistent with expense of mobility and safety statewide. local land use plans, and criteria for In doing so, DOT was unnecessarily project selection that would provide degrading South Carolina’s environment the greatest economic benefit with the and destroying the character of its least environmental impact. League communities. Legislative Liaison Patty Pierce, working In 2006, the conservation community with David Farren of SELC, led the – led by the Conservation League and effort. the Southern Environmental Law Center Finally on June 27th, 2007, (SELC) – demanded that no additional Governor signed long- taxpayer support, fees or taxes should awaited DOT Reform legislation – Act be allocated to DOT until fundamental 114 – into law. But the work wasn’t restructuring and reform could be finished. In the course of the following Rogue Roads – In 2007, the instituted. What followed was nearly year, Pierce and Farren worked closely Conservation League and a 36-member a year of intense work on the part of with DOT staff to ensure that the reform coalition convinced the General League staff, sympathetic legislators, and new law was translated into clear and Assembly to pass sweeping DOT Reform a 36-member reform coalition to craft meaningful regulations. The League legislation. legislation that would implement the continues to monitor implementation of necessary change and discipline at DOT. this landmark legislation.

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Policy in the Making A Legislative Time Line: 1989 – 2009

THE FIRST DECADE 1991 Laying the Groundwork 1990 w CCL begins work with OCRM to reform w CCL sponsors first Coastal Land 1989 dock regulations. Planning Conference. w CCL opens its first office, on King St. in w CCL initiates fight to stop Interstate 73 w CCL begins assisting ACE Basin Task Charleston, with a staff of three. – the Detroit to Charleston Highway. Force with land use, regulatory and w CCL collects nearly 6,000 signatures on w CCL persuades S.C. Highway Commission road policy issues. petition urging the Legislative Task Force to institute a major new policy requiring w CCL and NRDC file an amicus curia on Solid Waste to adopt the strongest DOT to take into account the impact of brief in defense of S.C.’s 1988 Beachfront possible recycling recommendations. road projects on trees. Management Act against two challenges by w CCL review reveals that DHEC’s analysis beachfront landowners. of 13 years of water monitoring data on Charleston Harbor is flawed and misleading. 1992 w CCL hires Sam Passmore as its first full-time Land Use Director. w CCL, Friends of the Earth and CLEAN file 1994 suit under Clean Water Act to prevent w CCL opens South Coast Office 1993 Wolverine Brass from violating its DHEC in Beaufort. w CCL halts extension of docks over permit. w Nancy Vinson becomes CCL's first state shellfish beds. w CCL and allies defeat “Cost-Benefit” full-time Water Quality Director. w CCL launches effort to reform state legislation that would have threatened state w CCL calls for strengthening state’s transportation policy. environmental and land use regulations. septic system regulations to prevent w CCL forces important reforms to the contamination of groundwater. Development Agreement Act. w CCL works with gubernatorial 1998 candidates to advocate for statewide w Beat the Burden campaign led by growth management. CCL and its conservation partners defeats most extreme Takings bill yet. w CCL assists residents in Beaufort and Charleston Counties in halting bridges 1995 to marsh islands. w CCL leads state opposition to amendments w I-73 is successfully weakening the Clean Water and Endangered 1997 rerouted to Myrtle Beach. w Species Acts. CCL and partners successfully lobby Congress to include federal w CCL begins battle to strengthen 1996 tax incentives for conservation S.C.’s factory hog farming laws. w CCL and citizen advocates convince easement donors. w CCL launches campaign to beat S.C. General Assembly to pass the Swine w CCL provides state resource agencies back harmful Takings legislation Bill – comprising the toughest factory with study on boat wakes and erosion. that would threaten rights of hog farming regulations in the nation. w CCL’s nomination of Cape Romain local jurisdictions to zone and w At the urging of CCL and state and Santee waters to Outstanding plan for growth. resource agencies, DOT establishes a Resource Waters succeeds in upgrading Wetlands Mitigation Fund. area to highest protection possible. w CCL co-sponsors Eastern States Conference on Creating More Livable Communities.

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2002 2003 w CCL establishes online Activist Network. w CCL begins campaign for DOT w Culminating a five-year effort, S.C. transportation policy reform. Conservation Bank Act is signed into law by w CCL works with Governor’s Office Governor Jim Hodges. and Department of Education to pass w CCL and citizen activists successfully Neighborhood Schools Act. mitigate changes to the Beachfront 2001 w S.C. Land Use Dispute Resolution Act Management Act affecting w CCL and key legislators strengthen passes, providing reasonable measures highly eroding beaches. factory hog farming regulations. to resolve zoning conflicts between w Two new Takings bills are introduced landowners and local governments. in the Legislature and beaten back. w CCL works with Lowcountry Open Land Trust and Cooper River landowners 2004 to preserve colonial village site of w CCL launches successful campaign to Childsbury. 2005 ensure full funding for Conservation Bank. w After more than a decade, CCL and its allies w CCL and nine other conservation persuade Legislature to expand state Grand Jury organizations host first Conservation Lobby powers to investigate environmental crimes. Day and Legislative Breakfast. w CCL works with lawmakers to prevent passage w In response to CCL research and data, of Billboard Protection Act. Attorney General McMaster rules that OCRM w CCL works with advisory committee to draft cannot issue permits for bridges to marsh 2000 landmark regulations protecting marsh islands w islands without proof of private CCL opens permanent, full-time and public trust tidelands from bridging and ownership. Legislative Office in Columbia, with over-development. Nancy Stone-Collum as its first director. w CCL’s Greenbelt Education Project and Institute publish Urban 2006 Growth Maps that graphically reveal the 2007 w CCL and its conservation partners threat of uncontrolled growth in S.C. w DOT Reform becomes law after years launch weekly citizen Lobby Days at the w CCL helps pass S.C.’s first Conservation of intense work on the part of CCL and State House. its allies. Easement Tax Credit Bill. w CCL and its allies successfully promote a w Five years in the making, the Priority bill to allow state Heritage Trust Program Investment Act is signed into law. to issue bonds for land purchases. w CCL works with lawmakers to w CCL takes the lead in defeating Takings eliminate “river shacks” from public THE SECOND DECADE legislation for another year. A Permanent Presence at trust waters. the State House w Green Buildings legislation passes. 1999 2008 w CCL begins its second decade w CCL partners with electric with 17 full-time staff working out of offices in cooperatives and utilities to enact Georgetown, Beaufort and Charleston. five energy efficiency bills. w Beaufort County passes Zoning Ordinance w CCL begins initiative to establish a 2009 w with help from CCL and launches state’s first surface water withdrawal permitting CCL persuades General Assembly to Purchase of Development Rights program. program to protect the state’s update S.C. residential building energy code. w w CCL works with legislators to successfully riverine ecosystems. CCL and citizen activists pressure waste restore stronger water quality standards for w CCL launches campaign to industry to accept greatly improved state’s rivers, creeks, estuaries and lakes. reform S.C.’s outdated Determination of Need regulations on new annexation laws. landfill construction. w CCL works toward passage of Fair Share water bill.

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2nd Annual Charleston Green Fair

housands of citizens and more than 100 exhibitors participated in Charleston’s Green Fair at Marion Square on September 27th. The TGreen Fair was sponsored by the Charleston City Paper, the Coastal Conservation League, the City of Charleston, Jesse Colin Young (center in white shirt) and his wife, South Carolina native Lowcountry Local First and a host of other Connie Darden-Young (in blue on violin), perform for the Conservation League’s conservation-minded organizations. Local Music with a Message concert on September 27th. businesses shared information about their green products, services and technologies while local nonprofits offered tips about conservation, energy efficiency, local agriculture and more. The Conservation League sponsored this year’s music headliner, Jesse Colin Young – former lead singer of the Youngbloods, songwriter of the classic Sixties anthem “Get Together,” and long-time environmental advocate. Joining Young on stage were the winners of the first-ever Music with a Message winners included Corey Webb (center) and his Bodies of Magic “Music with a Message” contest, organized band with Kristin Abbott (left), along with Colleen Yost (far right), a seventh-grader at and sponsored by the League. Grand prize Charleston School of the Arts. was $500 and a free session at Awendaw Green recording studio.

(l-r) League Program Director Hamilton Davis with League member Pat Sullivan and Dr. Nicholas Rigas, Director of the Renewable Energy Focus Area of the Restoration Institute at .

Williamsburg Party

he Chandler family recently hosted a party for Pee Dee supporters of the Conservation League on their family lands in Williamsburg County, near the Ttown of Henry. Good food and lively conversation were shared by all on what was a beautiful fall Sunday in October.

(l-r) Nelson Chandler, Nancy Cave, Tommy Stuckey, Dana Beach and Ann Rodgers Chandler gather to celebrate the work of the Conservation League in the Pee Dee region.

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Land Use 101

onservation League Executive Director Dana Beach and Land Use Director Josh Martin took their Land Use 101 show on the road this fall, presenting in Beaufort, Georgetown and Charleston. Dana began Cthe presentation with “A Brief History of Land Use in South Carolina” and Josh followed with a modern perspective on “Rethinking Human Settlement Patterns.” The entertaining, 30-minute Power Point show features images and stories spanning centuries of human settlement.

(l-r) Worth Liipfert, Carson Twombley, Ivey Liipfert, Ashley Twombley and Kimberly Smith at Beaufort’s Land Use 101 presentation.

(l-r) Conservation League members Amy Weinmeister and Dwight Fee with guest, Kathy Besse, gather for Land Use 101 in Georgetown.

(l-r) Members Chris DeScherer (l-r) Hollywood Mayor Jackie and Amanda Honeycutt, with Heyward with Lowcountry Open (l-r) League Land Use Director Josh Martin and Walterboro League Project Manager Kate Land Trust Chair Margaret supporter Weldon Schenck. Parks. Blackmer.

(l-r) Nelson Chandler, Weave Whitehead, Anna Chandler (l-r) Sarah McDaniel, William Chandler and Charlie and Emily Whitehead stand in front of the recently restored Cook enjoy family and friends at the Williamsburg County McFadden-Chandler House. party for the Conservation League.

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Big Read

The Coastal Conservation League and Sullivan's Island Elementary School (SIES) partnered to sponsor The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. The program, entitled "Stark Raven Mad," recognized the life of Edgar Allan Poe (who once lived on Sullivan’s Island) and the role that nature played in his work. S.C. Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth and artist Leslie Pratt-Thomas led a poetry workshop with the 4th grade students at SIES. Nancy Vinson, League Water Quality Director, gave a talk on “Tidal Marshes - The Ocean's Nursery Ground," followed by poetry readings by the students.

Berkeley at Beaufort

Pictured at right are a few of the 55 members of the University of California at Berkeley Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnership touring the nature trails and property of League South Coast Office Project Manager Reed Armstrong (center in yellow shirt). The group was attending a workshop at the Penn Center on Saint Helena Island, where Reed delivered a presentation on the work of the Conservation League.

Ansel Adams Exhibit in Columbia The Rising Sea, by Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young

nsel Adams: Masterworks from the y 2100 – in only the time it will take a child born collection of the Turtle Bay Exploration today to grow old – the seas are projected by some Center, Redding, California opened experts to rise by as much as seven feet. Orrin this fall at the Columbia Museum H. Pilkey and Rob Young explain the daunting Aof Art and runs through January Bconsequences of sea level rise in their new book, The 17th, 2010. The collection of 47 gelatin Rising Sea (Island Press hardcover). silver prints by Ansel Adams (1902 -1984) For a limited time only, Island Press is offering Coastal represents a selection Adams made late in his Conservation League members a 25% discount on each life to serve as a representation of his life’s purchase of The Rising Sea. Please visit www.islandpress. work and what he felt were his best images. org/risingsea and use the discount code: 5RSEA.

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Welcome New Staff William Cogswell Joins Board

Courtenay Speir has We are pleased to announce that William joined the staff of the Coastal Cogswell, Jr. has joined the board of the Conservation League as its Coastal Conservation League. Since 1997, new Director of Development, William has been in the development and replacing Nancy Cregg, who construction business. His background also is retiring after more than four includes work in planning, preservation, real years of outstanding work in estate equity funds, commercial brokerage, membership and development. and green construction. Courtenay comes to us After receiving a graduate degree from from Lincoln Center for Columbia University in 2003, William the Performing Arts in City, where she formed Standard Precast Walls, LLC to complement his was Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships and development efforts and to introduce a more sustainable, energy Development. Prior to Lincoln Center, Courtenay efficient building envelope to the Southeastern market. WECCO worked for Sotheby’s Auction House and in arts Construction, LLC was formed in early 2006 in order to complete management and conservation in New York. the design-build process. A graduate of Fordham University with a B.A. in William is a native of Charleston and a graduate of the History of Art, Courtenay is currently working on University of the South. He is actively involved with the Urban a Master in Public Administration from New York Land Institute, Historic Charleston Foundation and The Nature University. She and her husband, Andrew, grew up Conservancy. in the South and are excited to return. Courtenay enjoys opera, symphonic music, ballet, travel, backpacking, running and tournament golf. The Conservation League bids farewell to Thank You three dedicated trustees A native of Milwaukee, Merrill McGregor became George Johnston joined the Conservation League board in 2003 the Government Relations and he and his wife, Kathy, have been long-time advocates for local Coordinator for the environmental causes in the Beaufort area. George also founded and Conservation League in administrates “Enviroexec,” a listserv that advocates for smart growth October. She is sister to and environmental issues in Beaufort County and the surrounding Christie McGregor, former region. A retired consultant to the international shipping industry, director of the League’s George has contributed immeasurably to his adopted Lowcountry. Columbia office and now Director of Government Mary Kennemur, a native of Columbia, S.C., has charted new Relations for the S.C. Nature Conservancy. ground in the professional world while never failing to give back to Before coming to the League, Merrill served as her community. Formerly one of nine managing directors for Merrill the office manager for the Lucas Group, an executive Lynch, she was the first woman to be named to the S.C. Retirement The Rising Sea, by Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young recruiting firm in Chicago. She coordinated Systems Investment Panel. As Mary steps down from the board of operations for more than 40 recruiters, providing the Conservation League, she assumes Chairmanship in 2010 of the research support on industry trends and competitive board of the United Way of the Midlands. data. She also worked for the healthcare investment and consulting firm, the Dorenfest Group, managing As a second-term trustee of the Conservation League, Gillian Roy all administrative support for the CEO and fully embraced South Carolina as her adopted home. Full-time conducting research related to international health residents of Pawleys Island, Gillian and her husband, Peter, quickly care policy. became active with both environmental and social justice issues A graduate of the College of Charleston, Merrill in the Lowcountry. Gillian now plans to devote more time to the was a volunteer in the Conservation League’s Safe Families Initiative, a new nonprofit she recently founded that legislative office before joining the staff. She also has is dedicated to creating a Family Justice Center in Georgetown, served as a volunteer ESL Tutor in Columbia and providing services to victims of domestic violence. taught English in Quito, Ecuador.

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LIVE OAK SOCIETY Contributions Received from November 1, 2008 - October 31, 2009 The Coastal Conservation League works very hard to ensure that all donor names are listed correctly; however, occasional mistakes do occur. Please contact Database Manager Nora Kravec at (843) 725-2057 with any questions or corrections.

$10,000+ Joanna Foundation Mr. Daniel K. Thorne Nancy and Steve Cregg Anonymous (4) Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lane Daniel K. Thorne Foundation, Inc. Mr. Hal Currey and Ms. Margaret Schachte Penny and Bill Agnew Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr. Gary and Mary Beth Thornhill Mrs. Mary C. Cutler American Rivers, Inc. Mills Bee Lane Foundation Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Ms. Connie Darden-Young and Anthony and Linda Bakker Mr. T. Cartter Lupton II Turner Foundation, Inc. Mr. Jesse Colin Young Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Berry Lyndhurst Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James C. Vardell III Mr. and Mrs. P. Steven Dopp The William Bingham Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McShane and Family Mr. and Mrs. Berry Edwards Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation Merck Family Fund WestWind Foundation Ms. Carol B. Ervin Butler Conservation Fund, Inc. Mertz Gilmore Foundation Joe and Terry Williams The Hilliard Family Foundation, Inc. Charlotte Caldwell and Jeffrey Schutz Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller Yawkey Foundation Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Hilliard The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Mrs. Alexander Moore James and Margaret Hoffman Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Moses $5,000 - $9,999 Holly H. Hook and Dennis A. Glaves Ceres Foundation, Inc. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Anonymous (4) Billie and Alan Houghton Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Chitty New Morning Foundation Mr. J. Marshall Allen Dr. William Kee Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation The Osprey Foundation Banbury Fund, Inc. Bob and Jackie Lane Strachan Donnelley Family Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr. John and Jane Beach Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Leath, Jr. Lead Unitrust Post and Courier Foundation Virginia and Dana Beach Dr. Franklin Lee Vivian Donnelley Charitable Trust V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation Henry M. Blackmer Foundation, Inc. Dr. Suzanne Lindsay and Mr. Bruce Lindsay Mrs. Vivian Donnelley Jeffrey Schutz and Charlotte Caldwell Mrs. Margaret N. Blackmer The Suzanne and Bruce Lindsay The Festoon Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Anne Rivers Siddons and Ms. Margaret P. Blackmer Charitable Foundation Dorothea and Peter Frank Mr. Heyward Siddons Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleveland Mr. Lorcan Lucey Nancy and Larry Fuller Ms. Dorothy D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Coen Lucey Mortgage Corporation Laura and Steve Gates Libby Smith The Edward Colston Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Maize, Jr. William and Mary Greve Foundation Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cowgill Dr. and Mrs. G. Alex Marsh III John C. Griswold Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tenney Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. Dudley Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Hale H.L. Thompson, Jr. Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Mather Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Fennell Mr. P. O. Mead III Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fennell Mr. and Mrs. James O. Mills James L. Ferguson Mrs. William Moredock COASTAL LEGACY SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert The Morning Sun Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hagerty Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Parks The Coastal Legacy Society honors those who have provided for the Mr. and Mrs. John Philip Kassebaum Charles and Celeste Patrick Coastal Conservation League through their wills or estate plans. By Linda Ketner Mrs. Ann Percival Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laco Ms. Cynthia Swanson Powell making a gift to the Coastal Legacy Society, you will join this group of Lakeside Foundation Mrs. Harriet McDougal Rigney extraordinary individuals in their commitment to protect the Lowcountry Lau Associates LLC Mr. John M. Rivers, Jr. for generations. If you are interested in finding out more about naming Ms. Bokara Legendre John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation, Inc. the Coastal Conservation League in your will or estate plans, please Mr. and Mrs. John E. Masaschi Gillian and Peter Roy Mr. and Mrs. Irenee duPont May Ms. Martha Jane Soltow contact Development Director Courtenay Speir at (843) 723-9895. Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. T. Paul Strickler Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meier Charles and Jo Summerall Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell, Jr. Mr. Robert L. Underwood Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Mr. Guy Paschal Ms. Lisa Wackenhutt Russell and Judith Burns Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation Dr. Robert Ellis Welch, Jr. Charlotte Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Said Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Wyrick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coffee, Jr. Mrs. Alexander F. Schenck Ziff Properties Charleston Ms. Marcia Curtis Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Schenck Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ziff Southern Environmental Law Center, Inc. Howard Drew Tara Foundation $1,000 - $1,999 Carol B. Ervin Jane Smith Turner Foundation Anonymous (5) Mrs. Mary C. Everts Ms. Jane S. Turner Drs. T. Brantley and Penny Arnau Dr. Annette G. Godow Susan and Trenholm Walker Chuck and Betsy Baker Miss Florence E. Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. William R. Barrett, Jr. $2,000 - $4,999 Mrs. Ann R. Baruch Katherine M. Huger Anonymous (1) Mrs. Katrina Becker Jane Lareau Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allen Mr. L. Russell Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles Ms. Marianne H. Ball Blackbaud, Inc. Dr. Thomas R. Mather Nancy and Billy Cave Dr. Eloise Bradham and Dr. Mark George Miles F. McSweeney Mr. and Mrs. Arnold B. Chace, Jr. The Brumley Family Foundation Trust Ellen and Mayo Read Mr. and Mrs. Munroe Cobey Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Brumley Cobey Family Fund of Fidelity Ms. Amy Bunting Mr. Jason A. Schall Charitable Gift Fund Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cooper Bob and Cris Cain

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Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cart Mr. Anthony Cecil In my first year as a state senator, I have enjoyed working with the Coastal Mr. and Mrs. James J. Chaffin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Crawford Conservation League on important legislation that will improve our quality of Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Cross Mr. and Mrs. Wade C. Crow life, including the following: the surface water withdrawal bill, a moratorium Mr. R. Gordon Darby Mrs. Jane Blair Bunting Darnell on new mega-dumps, additional funding for the Conservation Land Bank, Mrs. Emily Darnell-Nunez Mrs. Palmer Davenport converting DHEC to a cabinet agency, promoting the new Jasper County port Michael and Megan Desrosiers Ms. Laura Donnelley Mr. and Mrs. F. Reed Dulany, Jr. and reforming our state’s outdated annexation laws. Ms. Margaret D. Fabri Mr. H. McDonald Felder – Senator Tom Davis (R-Beaufort) Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Finley Rev. and Mrs. David Fort Mr. Lee Schepps and Ms. Barbara Cottrell Alison and Arthur Geer Anne and Ben Moise Mr. Robert W. Foster, Sr. Dr. H. Del Schutte, Jr. Drs. Andrew Geer and Susan Moore Mr. Marty Morganello Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freeman Mr. T. Grange Simons V Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Geer Mr. and Mrs. M. Lane Morrison Mr. and Mrs. E. Stack Gately Mr. Matt Sloan Ms. Melanie Gnazzo Mr. and Mrs. C. Lawrence Murphy Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart, Jr. Ms. Donna K. Smith Dr. Annette G. Godow Mrs. Thomas E. Myers The Good Works Foundation Dorothy D. Smith Charitable Foundation Ms. Amanda Griffith Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Hawkins Southern States Educational Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hagood Dr. and Mrs. Alan I. Nussbaum Holly Houghton and David Walker James Gustave Speth Fund for the Mr. and Mrs. D. Maybank Hagood Mr. and Ms. Robert M. Ogden III Mr. and Mrs. Calvert W. Huffines Environment of the Open Space Institute, Inc. Blair and Nancy Hahn One Cool Blow, LLC Robert L. Huffines, Jr. Foundation, Inc. William and Shanna Sullivan Half-Moon Outfitters Dr. and Mrs. J. David Osguthorpe Mrs. Robert R. Huffman Mr. and Mrs. Jan S. Suwinski Dr. Angela Halfacre Mr. and Mrs. Coleman C. Owens Ms. Holly R. Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Symington, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hanlin Ms. Kate Parks Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Kellogg Mr. Mark C. Tanenbaum Dr. Kit M. Hargrove Dr. and Mrs. B. Daniel Paysinger Ms. Nunally Kersh and Mr. Robert Stehling Dr. Ann Truesdale and Mr. James Truesdale Mrs. Charlotte McCrady Hastie Mr. Bill Pendergraft and Mrs. Harriet Keyserling Tom Uffelman and Patty Bennett Whitney and Elizabeth Hatch, via the Ayco Ms. Jeanne Phillips Mrs. Dudley Knott Mr. and Mrs. Greg VanDerwerker Charitable Foundation Ms. Patricia A. Pierce Mrs. Hugh C. Lane Sally Webb Oliver R. Head, Jr. and Mary M. Head Gift Mr. Richard Rainaldi Scott and Gayle Lane Ms. Barbara L. Welch Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ransome III Mr. Roy F. Laney Ms. Martha C. Worthy Mr. William J. Hennessy, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Richards Dr. Diane D. Lauritsen Mr. Fred B. Herrmann Mr. and Mrs. William R. Richardson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson $500 - $999 Mr. Edwin Hettinger and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rosengren Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Leak Anonymous (2) Ms. Beverly Diamond Mr. Richard B. Saxon Charlie and Sally Lee Ms. Carrie Agnew Hilton Head Island Audubon Society Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schaller The Little-Reid Conservation Fund of the Mr. and Mrs. Conrad P. Albert Mr. William L. Hiott, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Scheetz, Jr. Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Ms. Vivian D'Amato Asche Mr. and Mrs. Hodge Dickie and Mary Schweers Kathie Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Paul Avery Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hoffius Sea Biscuit Café Mrs. Walden E. Lown Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey, Jr. Mr. J. W. F. Holliday Dr. Sally E. Self Mike and JoAnne Marcell Mary Ruth and William Baxter Dr. Melanie A. Hopkins Dr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Shealy Mrs. Frank M. McClain Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Beaton Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Horlbeck Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Simmons, Jr. Mr. John L. McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Beattie James and Page Hungerpiller Dr. and Mrs. William M. Simpson, Jr. Ms. Jamie Young McCulloch William M. Bird & Co., Inc. Mr. Patrick Ilderton Mr. G. Dana Sinkler Mr. and Mrs. Barclay McFadden III Blackwater, LLC Dr. Merrill P. Irvin Dr. Cynthia P. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McGee Judge William Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jackson, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Smith Ms. Martha Morgan Ms. Susan Hilfer Mr. and Mrs. George P. Johnston Drs. Ryan and Erin Smith Russell E. and Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Carson, Jr. Ms. May Jones Dr. and Mrs. James Stephenson W. Morgan Foundation Leigh Mary W. Carter Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Jules Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Stoothoff Mr. Hugh Comer Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Carter Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Kammer Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Storen Nature Adventures Outfitters, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. T. Heyward Carter, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Keller, Jr. Mrs. Margaretta Taylor Mr. P. Sherrill Neff and Ms. Alicia Felton Mrs. Ann Rodgers Chandler Melissa and Michael Ladd Mr. John H. Tiencken, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth B. O'Connor Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Childs Dr. and Mrs. Wood N. Lay Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Timmons Ms. Elizabeth F. Orser Mr. and Mrs. James Coker Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Verity Dr. Robert Payne and Dr. H. Paul Cooler Chip and Coleman Legerton Mr. G. David Waller Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas Mr. and Mrs. David A. Creech Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Leland Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Webb Mrs. Joan C. Pittman Mr. Malcolm M. Crosland, Jr. Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb Plantation Services, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. William F. Crosswell Mr. and Mrs. Fulton D. Lewis Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Prevost Ms. Rebecca R. Davenport Dr. and Mrs. Lanneau D. Lide Dr. Tad Whiteside Mrs. Charles D. Ravenel Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Davis Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lortz Mrs. Betty C. Wiggins

Mr. and Mrs. S. Kim Reed Mr. Chris Davis David Lyle and Anne Aaron-Lyle Dr. Dara H. Wilber Live Oak Society Dr. Georgia C. Roane Curtis and Arianna Derrick Dr. and Mrs. Brem Mayer Ms. Walda Wildman and Mr. Mack Maguire David W. and Susan G. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Eaton Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. McCann Dr. and Mrs. George W. Williams Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Eidt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James D. McGraw Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop Mrs. David Robinson Mr. D. Reid Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Dexter C. Mead Mr. Perry L. Wood Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rothnie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ethridge III The Nelson Mead Fund Dr. W. Curtis Worthington Rothnie Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Ms. Nina M. Fair Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Meyer Dr. Robert Young Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Peter Feldman Kincaid and Allison Mills Bob Rymer and Catherine Anne Walsh Ms. Catherine H. Forrester Mr. and Mrs. John M. Mirsky

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NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERSHIPS August 1, 2009 – October 31, 2009

SPECIAL GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. John Trinkl Mr. John Hartz and Ms. Susan Grey SUPPORTER ($50 - $99) Anonymous (1) Waste Management Employees' Better Ms. Molli M. Hartzog Ms. Libby Anderson and Mr. Paul Nurnberg Mr. and Mrs. William J. Chandler, Jr. Government Fund Mrs. Eaddy W. Hayes Billie J. Black Beau and Kristen Johnson Mr. and Mrs. John Waters Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hester Ms. Margaret Bobo Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr. Mr. David Whitten Mr. John R. Hope Jan Brewton Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthew Mr. and Mrs. D. Mark Wilson Mrs. Vera C. Hyman Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Bridgman Mrs. Noel C. Young Mr. George Ivey Mrs. and Mr. Carley Brown CONTRIBUTOR ($100 - $249) Beau and Kristen Johnson Drs. Marion L. Brown and Marilyn Mumford ADVOCATE ($250 - $499) Anonymous (1) Dr. Elizabeth G. Joiner Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brubaker Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McDowell Ball Mrs. Lisa Jones-Turansky Mr. Joseph W. Cabaniss Mr. Rhett S. Bickley Mrs. Mary L. Ballou Mr. Chris Kouri Mr. Elwyn Cahaly Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation Bo and Mickey Barry Ms. Nancy M. Kreml Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Cale Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Brand II Mr. and Mrs. Chris Barton Miss Gretta Kruesi Mr. and Mrs. A Crawford Clarkson, Jr. Ms. Ruthann Burgess Dr. R. Randy Basinger The Honorable Phil P. Leventis Mr. James T. Collins Mr. R. R. M. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. William D. Baughman Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Lybecker Mr. Mark Comer Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mathisen Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Crutchfield Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Maybank Dr. and Mrs. George B. Del Porto As a Midlands legislator, I continue to look to the Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McArthur Ms. June N. Derrick Mr. Mark McConnel and Mr. Darryl Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Doty III Conservation League as an objective resource on Col. and Mrs. Thomas G. McCunniff Mr. Randell Ewing Ms. Eileen Mary McGuffie Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Fishburn coastal and environmental issues as we strive for Mr. and Mrs. John F. McIlwain Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Goldstein Dr. Phoebe A. McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Grady, Jr. sustainable coastal development. Capt. and Mrs. William L. Miles Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Gravil George W. Miller Mr. Robert Gurley – Representative Joan Brady (R-Richland) Mr. Warren Moise Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hall Mr. Rick C. Montague Mr. and Mrs. J. William Haltiwanger Mr. and Mrs. Jack Muench Mrs. Dorinda Q. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Corning Mr. Peter Baumann Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Mullin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hartnett Senator and Mrs. John E. Courson Ms. Jacqueline J. Bayless Malcolm and Priscilla Munson Ms. Connie Haskell Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dias Bill and Ellen Bell Mr. Vance Nesmith Mr. and Mrs. Marc Hehn Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Drummond Mr. Joseph P. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Palmer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alex G. Henderson Mr. William Ellison, Jr. Mr. Charles J. Bethea Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pennebaker Ms. Marilyn M. Henderson Ms. Michel Faliero Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Boykin Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Penniman IV Col. and Mrs. Perry A. Hudel Mr. Danny Forsberg Dr. Eloise A. Bradham V. Adm. Douglas C. Plate Mrs. Derial C. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Kinney Gause Mr. and Mrs. Kyle S. Braxton Mr. John T. Poole Dr. and Mrs. W. Scott James Mr. Andrew Geer Marilyn and Howard Brilliant Mr. Jerry Poore James J. Jowers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Gettys III Ms. Brenda Burbage Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post, Jr. Mr. Kevin Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Steven S. Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick H. Burr Dr. and Mrs. Jan H. Postma, Jr. Ms. Joan Kinne Ben and Penn Hagood Ms. Barbara H. Burwell Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Pulliam Mr. Ralph C. Ksenzak Mr. Richard F. Hendry Mr. Herbert J. Butler Mr. John L. Quigley, Jr. Mrs. Anna S. Lacher Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Howe Ms. Paula W. Byers Mrs. E.H. Rakestraw Ms. Bobbie H. Lawson Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hurt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cable, Jr. Mr. Frank W. Rambo Mr. James Lawton and Ms. Yvonne Leonard Thomas D. W. Hutto Dr. and Mrs. W.C. Carter III Ms. Cheryl Randall Mr. and Mrs. James G. Leffel Mrs. Peggy Hendricks Jones Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Chandler Terry and Maria Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lehnhoff Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Chase Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Rivers, Jr. Dr. I. Grier Linton, Jr. Nora Kravec and Charles Cyr Mr. and Mrs. David Clark Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Schmitt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Lustig Dr. and Mrs. Markus Kruesi James C. Cochrane Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shealy, Jr. Mr. Frederick F. Masad Jonathan Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cohen Harriet and Dick Smartt Mrs. Robert Matthew Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles Dr. and Mrs. L. Bradford Courtney Mr. David S. Spell Mr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Maxwell Gordon and Catherine Locatis Mrs. Nadine Darby Mr. Thomas Stuckey Mrs. Audrey C. McBratney Timothy J. Lyons, M.D. Mr. John G. Davis Ms. Jennie G. Summerall Mr. Curtis McCall, Jr. Ms. Karen E. McCormick, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Dodds Mrs. Tonnia K. Switzer-Smalls Frances McClary Mr. and Mrs. John P. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Drew III Mr. Jesse H. Tate Dr. and Mrs. Kelly T. McKee Mr. and Mrs. John T. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Feldman Drs. George and Carol Tempel Mrs. Julie C. McLaughlin Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Murphy Mr. Roger Finlay Louis and Jane Theiling Mrs. Dorothy L. Mosior Dudley and Ann Myers Mr. Michael Gardner Mr. and Mrs. William H. Thomas, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Naylor Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Nolan Mr. J. Lee Gastley Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Thorpe, Jr. Mr. Michael Norris Ms. Sis Nunnally Ms. Elizabeth B. Glazebrook Mr. Jonathan D. Tillotson Geno and Mel Olmi Roy Owen and Sue McClinton Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gowin Joan and Martin Ustin Mr. and Mrs. George Owen Lydia Engelhardt, M.D. and Bill Rambo, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Greenstein Dr. and Mrs. H. Oliver Williamson Mrs. Anne V. Padgett Mr. Frank W. Rambo Mrs. Nancy Griffiths Ms. Caitlin M. Winans Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Pauls Mr. Legrand A. Rouse II Jim and Kay Gross Ms. Elizabeth J. Witham Dr. and Mrs. Keith C. Player Dr. James G. Simpson Guerrilla Cuisine Ms. Laura S. Witham Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Reading II Mr. and Mrs. Huger Sinkler II Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hadley Ms. Patricia Wolman Mr. Wayne Richard Ms. Judith C. Sterrett Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Hagy Mrs. Amelia K. Wood Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rigler Drs. Christine and C. Murry Thompson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Harrell Mr. J. Givens Young Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Rosen

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NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERSHIPS August 1, 2009 – October 31, 2009 Ms. Virginia Rosenberg Marnette Bowen Ms. Marsha B. Jenkins STUDENT ($15 - $29) Dr. James D. Scurry Mr. Doran A. Bramlett Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Keinath Mr. John F. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Skidmore Mr. Gerrald O. Branton Mr. and Mrs. Bill Krucke Jonathan and Marty Bonds Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Smith Ms. Evelyn C. Caldwell D. H. Robinson, M.D. and J. W. Lawther, Ph.D Mr. Steven Cook Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Smith Dr. William E. Carson Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr. Ms. Marianne C. Daleske Mrs. Miriam Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Claypool Ms. Patricia O. Lowry Ms. Carol Tanner Dotterer Mrs. Tonnia K. Switzer-Smalls Mrs. Richard D. Coonen Mrs. Letitia Galbraith Machado Mr. and Mrs. Eric K. Engdahl Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Thomas Mrs. Elaine Cooper Mr. Randal G. McClure Ms. Guinn Garrett Mrs. Barbara W. Titus Mrs. Jeannette M. Cooper Mrs. Suzanne G. McIntyre Victoria Hanham-Gross John and Kay Townsend Ms. Rosemary A. Corley Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Meyerson Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Hoenck Ms. Sally Tuten and Mr. Y. S. Linder Dr. James R. Edinger Mr. Robert B. Miller Mr. Sean Hughes Mrs. Joan Vander Arend Mrs. Luanne H. Elliott Laura E. Moses Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Johnson Dr. Luis Viamonte Dr. Frances L. Elmore Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. O'Neal Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Leahy Mr. Kurt Wagner Ms. Mary Fetscher Mr. William Y. W. Ripley Miller Marshall Mrs. Laurie Waldrop Mrs. Jaquelin P. Fleet Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Schwenzfeier Ms. Shelley McGeorge, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Jason Watkins Mr. D. Michael Foley Dr. Daniel Silver Mrs. Mary Lang G. Olson Mr. B. L. Watson Dr. and Mrs. James Forrester Ms. Lillian Ann H. Smith Mr. Aaron Petty Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Weir Mrs. Amie Gitter Mrs. Olivia J. Smith Mrs. Katheryne Trammell Mr. Samuel C. Welsh Dr. Morris F. Gitter Mr. and Mrs. William D. Smyth Mr. Karl A. Williams, Jr. Mrs. Suzie H. Williams Mr. Brian Grabbatin Mr. and Mrs. James F. Snyder Ms. Marian C. Winner Cmdr. Susan H. Hancock Mrs. John M. Spence Mr. and Mrs. West P. Woodbridge, Jr. Mrs. Jennifer Harlan Mr. and Mrs. Dean O. Trytten Mrs. Lisa Hartzog Dr. Bruce Waldman REGULAR ($30 - $49) Ms. Hannah B. Heyward Mr. William P. Weber Mr. Bennett R. Baxley Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Hill Mr. Shemuel Ben Yisrael Mr. John H. Boineau Drs. Louis and Christine Huzella

IN KIND DONATIONS The Community Foundation of Western The Carriage House at Litchfield North Carolina Anne Rodgers Chandler Alexander and Laurinda Schenck Fund Coastal Expeditions Ft. Moultrie Foundation for the Carolinas Fuzzco, Inc. Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr. Teri Lynn Herbert Honor Marks New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The Park House in Habersham Paul and Mary Avery Charitable Fund William-Aiken House Jesse Colin Young Band The New York Community Trust The Barns Fund COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS The Bohemia Fund Central Carolina Community Feldman Family Fund Foundation Dana Beach Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson Pasadena Community Foundation In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth V. Lovelace Mr. Colin O’Neil Escrow Fund Gay S. Huffman Fund Mrs. Helen Alexander Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stevenson Robert W. Foster Charitable Escrow Fund Virginia and Dana Beach The Pittsburgh Foundation Adelaide Silver Crocker In Memory of the Honorable Wyatt T. Coastal Community Foundation F.E. Agnew Family Fund Francina L. Crocker Saunders Anonymous Fund Gary and Kelly Davis Mr. and Mrs. Langdon D. Long Molly Hudson Ball Fund MATCHING GIFTS Mr. D’Arcy C. Fasulo William M. Bird & Co. Endowment The Pew Charitable Trusts Mr. Robert W. Foster, Sr. In Memory of Mrs. Alice Anne S. Colbert Family Fund The Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Good Scarborough Houghton Fund The Williams Companies, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. L. Marion Gressette III Mrs. Janice O. Bristow, Jr. Ketner Fund for Social Justice Mrs. Arthur A. Madden Ms. Julia A. Bristow Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment GIFTS OF MEMBERSHIP Ms. Madge G. Major Mr. Melvin Creighton and Mrs. Karen The Millbrook Fund Mr. J. Marshall Allen for Mrs. Caroline Marchant Thompson-Creighton Joanne and Alan Moses Fund Mr. and Mrs. James J. Allen Mr. and Mrs. C. Whitaker Moore Mr. Hugh Jeffers and Ms. Anna Lee Turner Fred E. Pittman Fund Mr. Kyle S. Braxton for Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Palmer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Pritchard, Jr. I. Mayo and Posey Read Fund Mr. Vaughn G. Braxton Palmetto Retina Center Dr. Kimberly Pugh SC Green Fund Dr. and Mrs. Edmund R. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. George A. Ragland HONOR/MEMORIALS Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose G. Updegraff Mr. Albert B. Somers Community Foundation of Greater In Honor of Luca Desrosiers and Chattanooga, Inc. Kellen Desrosiers In Celebration of Mr. Sean McNally and In Memory of Ms. Kate Waring Jay and Jennifer Mills Fund Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wehman, Jr. Ms. Katherine Knight Ms. Sandra J. Senn Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bridgeforth Community Foundation of the In Honor of Jean B. Everett Mrs. Georgene Clower Lowcountry, Inc. Manning Council of Garden Clubs Mr. and Mrs. James B. LeVan Berry and Ruthie Edwards Giving Back Fund Mr. and Mrs. Ed McCorkle Martha C. Worthy Charitable Fund Mr. John O’Donnell

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For more information about the Coastal State House Calendar Conservation League, check out our Web site Tuesday, Jan. 12th Official start of the 2010 at www.CoastalConservationLeague.org Legislative Session of the 118th S.C. General Assembly Wednesday, Jan. 13th “Conversations with Conservationists,” hosted by Sen. John Courson Tuesday, Jan. 26th Lobby Team Tuesdays begin Tuesday, May 4th 7th Annual Conservation Lobby Day.

Contact the League’s Government Relations Coordinator Merrill McGregor at 803-771-7102 Celebrating or [email protected] for more The mission of the Coastal Conservation League is to protect the information about times, meeting natural environment of the South Carolina coastal plain and to enhance places, and transportation to and 20 the quality of life of our communities by working with individuals, from Columbia. Years businesses and government to ensure balanced solutions.

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Become an Activist During the 2010 Legislative Session, you can practice you’re connected. The Web site can also identify your particular activism from the State House lobby (or from your living representatives, up-to-date information on specific bills and room) in the following ways: legislation, and in a few easy steps, how to email a lawmaker about a particular issue of concern to you. And don’t forget to join our email Lobby Team Tuesdays “Hot List” for weekly updates on legislation and what’s happening at Lobby teams are now even bigger and better in this, our fifth year the State House. of assisting concerned citizens in engaging their legislators on conservation issues. Come to Columbia on any Tuesday that fits your For more information, log on to schedule and we will guide you through a day at the State House. www.CoastalConservationLeague.org or call You can observe a legislative session in action, speak to representatives and senators, attend hearings and help reinforce the message of our Patrick Moore or Merrill McGregor in the conservation agenda. Conservation League’s legislative office at 803-771-7102.

7th Annual Conservation Lobby Day On Wednesday, April 28th, hundreds of conservationists from around the state will gather at the State House to meet their representatives Cover Artist: After paying his dues as a newspaper photographer for and together promote a clean and healthy South Carolina. That several years, Sam Holland went out on his own to become a still evening after a day of lobbying, we enjoy an old fashioned oyster roast photographer for film productions and other commercial ventures. A and lively conversation with legislative guests and the conservation resident of Columbia, S.C., he has served as the official photographer community. for the S.C. House of Representatives for the last decade and has established an extensive library of images of South Carolina. To learn Join our Activist Network more about Sam and to view his stunning portfolio, visit his Web site Log on to www.CoastalConservationLeague.org and sign up at www.SamHollandPhotography.com. for our Activist Network. All it takes is an email address and