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FALL 2012
Who Speaks for These Trees?
Longleaf Pine Forests in the Sewee-to-Santee Region
BY JESSICA GARRETT
A peeling wooden sign marks the spot along Highway 41 where in 1998 the Dr. Seuss
Lorax Project and American Forests replanted a strand of longleaf pine in Francis Marion
National Forest, nine years after Hurricane Hugo decimated the area.
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contents:
From the Director ........................................................................................................2
TNC’s Water Works.....................................................................................................3
Who Speaks for These Trees? (continued) ...........................................................4
Conservation 365: Washo Reserve .........................................................................6
Member Corner: Beezer & Emily Molten ..............................................................7
PHOTOS © AMEY WARDER
Legacy Profile: Joe and Terry Williams ...................................................................8
Boeing Volunteers Go from Aeronautical to Nautical .......................................9
Thank you Bernita! ......................................................................................................9
Donor Recognition (FY 2011-2012) ................................................................... 10
TNC Bookshelf .......................................................................................................... 12
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from the director
Greetings friends! I love this season in South
Carolina, when summer’s humidity has lifted
and it’s invigorating to be outside, enjoying
our state’s incredible natural beauty. As the
holidays approach, we begin to gather with
loved ones and take stock of our blessings.
But it’s also a busy season, and it is for us at
TNC as well. Our staff isn’t simply counting
South Carolina’s blessings but energetically
working to protect them so future
generations can experience our special places,
from the Upstate’s serene mountains to the
Lowcountry’s golden marshes.
I am also proud that our efforts in the policy
arena achieved a significant victory this
summer, as the state legislature voted to
extend funding of the South Carolina
Conservation Bank to 2018, which otherwise
would have “sunset” in 2013. The
Conservation Bank is the single most
important funding source for land
conservation in South Carolina, with $7.5
million this year alone going toward land
protection. This means that your investment
in TNC gets magnified many times over for
statewide impact.
This newsletter highlights our ongoing work
in one of the country’s most significant native
forests – longleaf pine – a forest found only
in the Southeastern U.S., a dynamic habitat
that is hardy and durable, resistant to
extremes of weather, but highly vulnerable to
pressures of coastal development. TNC’s
expert scientists and real estate specialists are
zeroed in on land protection and fire
management strategies in the Lowcountry’s
Sewee-to-Santee. We are also forging
creative partnerships such as the Sewee
Forum, to engage community stakeholders in
helping balance natural resource protection
with the needs and values of the people who
live and work amidst the longleaf pine forest.
We face challenges, but with your support,
TNC has the talent and resources to
continue making headway.
We look ahead to 2013 with renewed
commitment and passion for our work. From
efforts to ensure safe water supplies to our
emphasis on marine and wetland ecology to
our continued protection of Jones Gap and
other upstate properties, TNC is making
lasting impacts across South Carolina, and we
are grateful for your partnership in this work.
Not even the Lorax could do it by himself!
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Mr. Terry E. Richardson, Jr. ~ Barnwell ~ -Chair
Ms. Natalma M. McKnew ~ Greenville ~ Vice-Chair
Mr. George A. Durban, III ~ Columbia ~ Treasurer
Ms. Jessica Loring ~ Yemassee ~ Secretary
Mrs. Patricia McAbee ~ Greenville
Dr. David E. McIntyre ~ Dewees Island
Mr. Arnold M. Nemirow ~ Charleston
Dr. Richard D. Porcher, Jr. ~ Mt. Pleasant
Dr. Douglas A. Rayner ~ Spartanburg
Dr. Harry E. Shealy, Jr. ~ Aiken
Ms. Langhorne T. Webster ~ Greenville
Trustees
Trustee Emeritus
Ms. Ann R. Baruch ~ Spring Island
Dr. Travis Folk ~ Green Pond
Mr. Richard K. Heusel ~ Pawleys Island
Ms. M. Russell Holliday, Jr. ~ Galivants Ferry
Mr. William G. Lowrie ~ Brays Island
Mr. Joseph H. Williams ~ Charleston
I hope you will take a moment to renew your
commitment to TNC and be proud of the
contributions we make, together, to preserve
the robust natural environment we are so
lucky to call home.
Thank you for making our work possible,
Mark Robertson
mrobertson@tnc.org
PHOTO © AMEY WARDER
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Honorary Trustee
Mr. C. Thomas Wyche ~ Greenville
TNC’S Water Works
BY JESSICA GARRETT
Water, water every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
—The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Countless times each day you reach
for the faucet and out streams clear,
clean water. You may drink or wash
with it, without thinking about where
that water comes from or what steps
have been taken to ensure that it’s
clean. Not so for The Nature
Conservancy. We follow drinking
water from its source and work with
partners to ensure that drinking water
across the state is clean today and
stays clean tomorrow.
In Beaufort and Jasper Counties, some 200,000
South Carolinians get their drinking water from
the Savannah River. The Savannah forms most
of the border between South Carolina and
Georgia and has the highest number of native
fish species of any river on the Atlantic coast; the
extensive hardwood forests in its floodplain are
one of the most critical stopover sites for
migratory songbirds. Maintaining a healthy
Savannah River is vital for all the life that
depends on it—plant, aquatic, aviary, and
human—which is why TNC directs member
support to its efforts to protect the Savannah’s
floodplain, to conserve and protect the lands
that drain into the river, and to manage the
river’s flows through upstream dams.
The Savannah’s floodplain extends across
several hundred thousand acres, most of which
is intact and has not been converted to
agriculture or cut off by levees. Since 2005,
TNC has doubled the acreage of protected
forests along the Savannah, from 69,000 to
138,000 acres. The fact that this floodplain
allows room for water to go downstream in case
of natural disasters like hurricanes is crucial,
according to Eric Krueger, South Carolina’s
director of science and stewardship. “When we
protect the floodplain,” Krueger says, “we
protect the natural communities that thrive
there. By doing so, the floodplain and its
communities protect us when disaster strikes.”
More recently, TNC has launched a fund to
protect land draining into the river in order to
protect raw water quality. Dean Moss, former
general manager of the Beaufort Jasper Water
Sewer Authority, explains that protecting
surrounding land reduces contaminants that
leach into the water, thereby reducing water
treatment costs and improving safety for
consumers.
A third vital factor in a healthy Savannah River
is the release of water from US Army Corps of
Engineers’ reservoirs. These reservoirs control
the river’s flow for all but the most rainfall-rich
periods, and are especially impactful during
drought. The Corps’ current Drought
Operations Manual dates to the 1980s and
does not account for the persistent droughts
that have characterized the region in the last
decade. In 2007, river flow recommendations
proved so inadequate that reservoirs contained
less than 60 days of release from conservation
pools. Releasing water into the Savannah from
below a given depth in the reservoirs—beyond
the conservation pool—can harm river
populations and require significantly more
treatment because of poor water quality from
the “inactive” pool.
TNC is leading efforts to ensure reservoir
releases promote a healthy Savannah River. Not
only is TNC analyzing river data in order to
propose new drought operations, it is also the
lynchpin in gaining stakeholder consensus for
new strategies for water management.
According to Eric Krueger, “good water
management cannot be executed simply
through good science.” Stakeholder
consensus—from government agencies,
scientists, recreational users, utilities, and
private enterprise—is equally important. TNC
founded the Savannah River Basin Advisory
Council (SRBAC), a 25-member organization
of lay and science stakeholders, to advance
consensus, and continues to work with this
council to forge a more lasting solution to
drought management in the Savannah.
TNC is committed—365 days a year—to
ensuring that members don’t have to worry
about the quality and availability of their water
supply. We welcome your support of this
important work, so we can all raise a glass
together.
For more information about TNC’s Savannah
River work, contact ekrueger@tnc.org.
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Who Speaks for These Trees?
While the Dr. Seuss Lorax
Project wasn’t entrusted
with the last of the
longleaf seeds, as the child
at the end Dr. Seuss’s
Lorax is, the story of
longleaf parallels the
children’s storybook in
many ways. Like the
MICHAEL PREVOST,
FORMER TNC PROJECT
Truffula Trees in Seuss’
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story, longleaf pine was
once plentiful. It was the dominant forest of
the coastal plain across nine states from
Virginia to Texas, the only region on Earth
where it exists. Longleaf covered more than 90
million acres, but after 300 years of intensive
timber harvest, agricultural expansion, fire
suppression, and urban development, less than
three percent remains. And like Seuss’ story,
saving the Truffula, or the longleaf, is also about
saving the species that depend on them.
More than 140 plant species can be found in
one square kilometer of longleaf pine forest,
and with nearly 900 indigenous plant species,
this forest is as biologically diverse as tropical
rainforests. “It’s about more than the tree, more
than the understory. It’s the entire ecosystem,”
explains the Sewee-to-Santee’s own Lorax,
Michael Prevost, former project director with
The Nature Conservancy (TNC). By
conservative estimate, this region once hosted
more than 420,000 acres of longleaf.
Currently, only about 50,000 acres remain.
According to Selden “Bud” Hill, director of
McClellanville’s Village Museum and cultural
historian of the Sewee-to-Santee region,
“Nobody I know in recent history has done
more for this area than Michael. He has
preserved a massive number of acres.” As in,
more than 25,000. The Santee Gun Club’s 1974
donation of 24,000 acres to TNC initiated the
formal effort to conserve the region and its
ecosystem. Prevost helped TNC complete 28
cooperative property acquisitions, resulting in
the transfer of 7,000-plus acres to the United
States Forest Service with another 2,000 acres
planned for transfer in the next two years, after
TNC completes initial longleaf restoration
efforts. In addition, he helped TNC secure 31
conservation easements in the region, protecting
more than 16,000 additional acres.
A Catalyst for Land Protection
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The circa 1768 chapel, worship place for some
of the nation’s founding families, was once
described by 20th-century poet Archibald
Rutledge as “a shrine in the wilderness, flanked
on three sides by the immense loneliness of the
pine forest.” To Hill, the potential sale of
surrounding acreage meant jeopardizing the
church’s historical and ecological context. “Part
of protecting the church is making sure that
property around it stays as is—as conserved
land,” he says.
TNC moved into high gear, raising $150,000
from private donors towards the parcel’s
purchase. Leveraging this with grants from the
South Carolina Conservation Bank and the
Charleston County Greenbelt Program, the
private dollars helped TNC and its partners
raise an additional $450,000—that’s three
public dollars for every one private dollar.
Furthermore, that 100 acres leveraged an
additional 2,200 protected acres through two
separate transactions. Thus, TNC’s original
100-acre purchase was the catalyst to protect
2,300 acres in the Sewee-to-Santee region,
each providing enhanced opportunities for
longleaf conservation.
What’s Next?
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Church at Wambaw came up for sale, TNC
and its partners took fast action.
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TNC is now heavily involved in the next phase
of Sewee-to-Santee conservation: restoring the
longleaf ecosystem. Much of the original range
of longleaf is in good condition for restoration.
However if the longleaf pine forest is to return,
a dedicated land management effort—and
constant coordination with partners such as the
US Forest Service and the country’s
preeminent longleaf pine authority, the Joseph
W. Jones Ecological Research Center—is
necessary. On a forest tour, Prevost, who
currently works with White Oak Forestry,
points out longleaf seedlings planted in
conjunction with the Forest Service and the
Joseph Jones Center. To date, Prevost
estimates, some 685 acres of seedlings have
been planted, with another 300 acres identified
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More than 140 plant species can be found in one square kilometer of
longleaf pine forest, and with nearly 900 indigenous plant species,
this forest is as biologically diverse as tropical rainforests.
Charleston
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for future planting.
Once longleaf seedlings have been established
for two years, they are hardy. As Prevost
explains, a 90% survival rate is both ideal and
realistic. But longleaf—whether nascent as on
this tract or mature as in other places in the
region—requires more than land protection
and replanting to flourish. In fact, TNC’s
restoration efforts involve what many assume
is only destructive: fire.
THE HISTORIC “PATH” OF THIS LAND—FROM
SWAMP TO RICE PLANTATION TO SHOOTING CLUB
TO PRESERVE—IS INDICATIVE OF “THE EVOLUTION
OF A LOCAL CONSERVATION ETHIC.”
—MICHAEL PREVOST
“Fire has been part of the longleaf pine cycle
forever. With longleaf, fire is as important as
rain and sunshine,” explains Tom Dooley,
TNC’s State Fire Manager. Fire is essential
every two to three years to reduce the fuel load
on the forest floor, increase recruitment of
longleaf seedlings, eliminate hardwood
competition, and enable the establishment of
saplings. “Longleaf’s high rosin content has
made it fire-adapted. What’s more, its long,
flammable needles might actually promote the
regular fires it needs to spread out and be as
dominant as it was centuries ago,” Dooley adds.
In addition to conducting the necessary
prescribed burns on lands under TNC’s
management, Dooley and TNC’s fire crew
assist the US Forest Service by applying
prescribed burns to about 30,000 acres of
longleaf forests each year. In the coming years,
TNC will collaborate even more closely with
the Jones Center and with private landowners
to expand the number of private lands treated
with regular prescribed fire.
The historic “path” of this land—from swamp
to rice plantation to shooting club to
preserve—is indicative of “the evolution of a
local conservation ethic,” according to Prevost,
one that began because early European settlers
and their descendants viewed large tracts as
single entities that ought to stay together.
Protecting these large tracts through
prescribed fire and collaborating with TNC’s
public and private partners are the mutually
reinforcing conservation strategies that will
help restore longleaf pine forests and their
biological diversity. Twenty years from now,
Prevost foresees “a land base that protects
rural values, forestry, small farms, and inherent
biological diversity because its citizens are
dedicated to its protection for the long term.”
Like the Lorax, he hopes everyone will speak
for the forest ecosystem.
PHOTOS © AMEY WARDER
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CONSERVATION 365
Washo Reserve
BY STEPHANIE HUNT
Like many of South Carolina’s conservation parcels, Washo Reserve was once a
hunting preserve, part of 24,000 acres acquired by TNC in 1974 from the Santee
Gun Club. Today this 1,040-acre parcel within the Santee Coastal Reserve
harbors a 200-acre cypress lake and one of the oldest and longest continuous-use
rookeries in North America.
Home to more than 200 wood stork nests each
year, Washo’s rookery rests on an old, stagnant
impoundment now threatened by encroaching
vegetation and dying cypress trees. Although
hard woods are sprouting from the base of
dying trees and on floating vegetation, it is
uncertain if these new trees (mostly tupelos)
are adequate for wood stork nesting. Without
more cypress regeneration and a means to
remove the floating vegetation, it may be hard
for wading birds to continue to be successful.
TNC is implementing a new management
strategy to ensure Washo’s long-term rookery
viability. After gathering a group of experts
with knowledge of wetland impoundments
and wading bird management, TNC is
building a drawdown structure to manipulate
water levels, reduce aquatic vegetation and
aerate cypress roots, promoting regeneration.
We will monitor both vegetation changes and
nest success throughout this process to better
understand how this management strategy will
impact the nesting habitat.
This project will not only guide TNC in
stewarding Washo Reserve, but will help other
land managers with similar habitat
parameters. We invite you to join TNC in
tracking the wood storks and other rookery
birds on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/pages/Washo-WoodStorks/114701865336534
For more information on how you can
support Conservation 365 at Washo
Reserve, contact Collette Degarady at
cdegarady@tnc.org.
PHOTO © COLLETTE DEGARADY
PHOTO © COLLETTE DEGARADY
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PHOTO © TOM BLAGDEN
membercorner BE E Z E R & E M I LY MOLTE N
BY STEPHANIE HUNT
The Nature Conservancy is the organization that best impacts habitat
protection across the whole state,” says Half-Moon Outfitters founder and
president Beezer Molten, a South Carolina boy in the broadest sense. Molten
grew up on a farm near Fountain Inn, spent summers on Pawley’s Island,
weekends and vacations at his grandmother’s in Caesar’s Head, learned to fly
fish near Jones Gap, then moved with his family to Columbia. Today Beezer and
his wife Emily, a Greenville native, live in the Lowcountry, on Sullivan’s Island.
Molten’s passion for the outdoors is obvious to any Half-Moon shopper, as is his
commitment to customer service and environmental stewardship, both of which
have garnered national accolades—Half-Moon was named Best Outfitter (2011)
and Sustainable Business of the Year (2009) by SNEWS/Backpacker Magazine.
“After college I spent time fly-fishing in Silver
Creek, Idaho, an unbelievably beautiful place,
and TNC is responsible for protecting that
pristine spring-fed creek,” says Molten. “Even
though completely broke, I gave my first $50 to
a non-profit (TNC) after fishing those waters,
and started Half-Moon right after, so you
could say TNC has impacted my company and
my vision from the beginning.”
Now with eight stores across South Carolina
and Georgia, Half-Moon seeks to give back
and make an impact across the state, not just
in any one region. Through its sponsorship
of the internationally acclaimed Banff Film
Festival—the proceeds of which they donate to
TNC—Half-Moon not only brings the best in
outdoor/adventure film to South Carolina, it
helps insure that outdoor enthusiasts inspired
by these films will have places in South
Carolina to go hiking, camping, climbing and
exploring. “Our company isPHOTO
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to
© DOTTIE SCHIPPER
doing what we can, where we can for habitat
protection—that’s what it’s about for us, so
we are delighted to partner with TNC and
support this work,” says Molten.
Membership:
A Perfect Holiday Gift!
It always fits and is guaranteed to give
pleasure for years to come.
Gift memberships are available at every level: $50
memberships and up include a year’s subscription
to Nature Conservancy magazine. Every member
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LEGACY PROFILE:
Joe and Terry Williams
BY STEPHANIE HUNT
The tallgrass prairies of Oklahoma are far afield from the golden marshes of
South Carolina, but not to Joe and Terry Williams.
Despite deep South Carolina
roots, including having lived on
Spring Island for 15 years
before moving to Charleston,
the Williams find Lowcountry
marsh grass and Western
prairie tallgrass equally
beautiful and their threatened
ecosystems equally worthy of
protection. In fact, when
business brought Joe, a
Camden, S.C. native who grew
up as a woodsman hunting and
fishing on his family’s historic
Mulberry Plantation, to Tulsa,
Oklahoma, he became
fascinated by tallgrass prairies,
and concerned by their plight.
“It’s an incredible landscape,
but at the time, less than three
percent of tallgrass prairie was
still in its original condition,”
Joe says.
After years of dedicated and
determined effort, Joe
Williams prevailed, and with
the help of groundbreaking,
creative public/private
conservation partnership led by
The Nature Conservancy, they
helped protect one of the
largest remaining tracts of
tallgrass prairie in the world.
Today the Nature
Conservancy’s Tallgrass Praire
PHOTO © AMEY WARDER
Preserve in the Osage Hills is a
46,000-acre ode to the
chapter of TNC and serving as its first
grasslands that once covered 220,000 square
miles of the United States. Before these prairies chairman, Joe has been a rare two-time
chairman of the TNC National Board of
began succumbing to development and
Governors, where he helped initiate the
agricultural/ranching uses, millions of bison
Conservancy’s hallmark large scale conservation
roamed these vast grasslands. In an emotional
efforts, of which Tallgrass Prairie Preserve was a
1993 ceremony, Joe and Terry watched as the
first. “Today, TNC is going international with
endangered buffalo were reintroduced to the
this type of large scale conservation, showing
preserve as part of TNC’s ecosystem
tremendous ingenuity. This, I believe, is the
management plan.
way to really make a difference,” says Joe, a
In addition to helping create the Oklahoma
recipient of The Nature Conservancy’s
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Lifetime Volunteer Achievement Award for his
dedication to preserving the world’s remaining
natural beauty and habitat.
Today Joe and Terry enjoy
traveling on TNC trips and
supporting the South Carolina
Chapter, for which Joe now
serves on the board as Trustee
Emeritus. And their love and
respect for wild places and for
protecting the environment is
part of their whole family’s
legacy –– all three Williams
sons work in related fields: one
is a professor and evolutionary
biologist, one with a graduate
degree in wildlife management
and one a former National
Outdoor Leadership School
instructor and TNC staffer
who is president and CEO of
The Wilderness Society.
The Williams know that
conservation takes effort and
resources. “In Oklahoma,
everyone said we couldn’t do
it,” says Joe, recalling the
naysayers when trying to save
Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. “But
we kept trying. It requires
perseverance. Conservation
takes time and people who are
committed.” To ensure that
their family’s commitment to
conservation will endure, Joe
and Terry have been regular
supporters and have made a
planned gift to TNC. “Joe and
Terry are a constant inspiration
to me,” says Monte Gaillard,
Director of Philanthropy for
the SC chapter. “They are leaving a true legacy
to conservation, not just through their planned
giving, but in the way they live their life.”
To find out more about becoming a Legacy
Member and the South Carolina Nature
Conservancy’s planned giving opportunities,
contact Monte Gaillard at mparsons@tnc.org or
(843) 937-8807, extension 14.
The Conservancy’s southeast marine
conservation efforts begin miles from shore in
the deep waters of the Atlantic. There, TNC
has initiated a regional marine mapping
project designed to characterize critical coastal
and ocean habitats from North Carolina to the
Florida Keys. Mapping these resources is just
the starting point; the goal is to use this
information to help inform ocean
management decisions such as energy
development, port expansion, and beach
re-nourishment. This requires The
Conservancy to work with a wide variety of
partners—state and federal agencies,
universities, businesses and ocean user groups
—as the information is gathered and
distributed.
Closer to land, TNC is collaborating with other
partners, namely hardy volunteers from Boeing,
to help improve the health of South Carolina’s
estuarine waters. Boeing Corporation
employees stepped out of the hangar and into
the intertidal marsh this past July to install
“oyster castles” as part of a Boeing-sponsored
effort to create beneficial marine habitat that
will enrich the ecological diversity in Cape
Romain National Wildlife Refuge.
Over the course of two days, 40 Boeing
PHOTO © MONTE GAILLARD
Boeing Volunteers Go from
Aeronautical to Nautical
volunteers joined a TNC team that included
Coastal Expeditions, the US Fish & Wildlife
Service, local volunteers, and the Dupre
Family, whose Palmetto Plantation is newly
under conservation easement with TNC and
served as a spot for volunteers to gather for
lunch and an ideal staging area for the
transport boats and materials.
The work required stamina and heavy lifting as
volunteers created a human chain to hoist
1,000 oyster castle blocks from dock to boat to
the build site. Volunteers then stacked the
blocks like Legos to form the 60’ x 6’ x 3’
structure that will serve as substrate for oyster
growth. “Oysters are a keystone species,”
explains marine restoration specialist Joy
Brown. “They create a complex habitat that
supports many creatures, and they improve
water quality as each oyster can filter 50
gallons of water a day.”
TNC has contracted with the College of
Charleston to monitor the site in the coming
months to document oyster population growth
and shoreline response around the reef
structure. Earlier projects installed with SC
DNR in Cape Romain have shown positive
results. Thank you, Boeing, for your prowess in
building oyster habitat as well as airplanes!
THANK YOU BERNITA!
Bernita Cooper, a senior at Claflin College,
spent her summer interning in our
Columbia office, adding her spitfire and
delightfully positive spirit to numerous TNC
projects. “My main focus was helping
research companies for the South Carolina
chapter’s Corporate Council for the
Environment,” the Hemingway, SC native
says. A communications and public
relations major, Bernita is excited about
entering the job world after graduation,
including possible work in the non-profit
arena based on her experience at TNC.
“Working with the SC chapter of TNC was
a lifestyle change for me. I’m much more
aware now of how my actions affect the
environment. I have a greater appreciation
for how what we do now will impact the
future and generations to come.” Thank
you, Bernita, for your good work and
helping us make that impact!
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thank you TO THE MANY FRIENDS OF
THE SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER OF
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
$25,000 and above
Alcoa Foundation
Alcoa Primary Metal
American Forests
Boeing Charleston Corp.
Buist Moore Smythe McGee, P.A.
Coleman Matching Gift Fund for SBR
Community Foundation of Greenville
Mrs. Lillian C. Darby
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Duke Energy
The Duke Energy Foundation
DuPre Family
Foundation for the Carolinas
Mr. & Mrs. H. Laurance Fuller
The MeadWestvaco Foundation
Dr. Jack R. Postle
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Stanback Jr.
Turner Foundation
White Family
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Williams
Yawkey Foundations
$10,000-24,999
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Ms. Ann R. Baruch
Mr. Bob C. Baugh
Blue Cross Blue Shield of S.C.
BMW Manufacturing Corp.
Mr. & Mrs. C. Austin Buck Jr.
Daniel-Mickel Foundation of South Carolina
Mr. & Mrs. Joe A. Erwin
Felburn Foundation, Inc.
Mrs. Mary Simms F. Gregory
The Hartfield Foundation
Mr. Lawrence K. Hill
Hollingsworth Funds, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Rob Howell
Mr. Michael F. Jaskwhich
Estate of Mrs. Eleanor Y. Keilen
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Kester
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Laco
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh C. Lane Jr.
Ms. Janet Masters
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Mauldin
Dr. & Mrs. David E. McIntyre
Mills Bee Lane Memorial Foundation
Mr. Arnold M. Nemirow
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Your generosity supports our mission, enabling TNC to preserve the natural resources that represent the diversity of life on Earth
by protecting the lands and waters that people and nature need to survive. The members listed here have made gifts during our
fiscal year July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Note: Due to space limitations we regret that we are not able to list all gift levels.
Dr. & Mrs. Harvey G. Ouzts
The Priester Foundation
The Honorable & Mrs. Alex M. Sanders
Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Shaw Jr.
Mrs. George R. Thompson Jr. & Mr. George
Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Richard O. Webb
Mrs. Langhorne T. Webster
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Webster III
The Williams Companies, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Winn
Mr. C. T. Wyche
$5,000-9,999
Anonymous (3)
Mr. & Mrs. Ivan V. Anderson Jr.
Brumley Family Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Brumley
Mrs. Donna R. Cart
Central Carolina Community Foundation
Ceres Foundation Inc.
Cliffs Management Services, LLC
Mr. Hugh W. Close
Coastal Community Foundation of South
Carolina
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Coenen
Mr. & Mrs. William Collins
Cooper Investments, L.P.
Dr. & Mrs. David L. Cull
Dr. Stephen L. Gavel
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew L. Hawkins
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Heigel
Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Heusel
Mr. & Mrs. R. Glenn Hilliard
Ms. Christie Douglas & Ms. Russell Holliday
Holliday Associates
Dr. William C. Jernigan & Dr. Celia M.
Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Hurdle H. Lea
Fall 2012
Ms. Jessica Loring & Mr. Laurence G.
Rasmussen
Mr. & Mrs. Horace Lothmann Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Erwin E. Maddrey II
The Maddrey Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. W. Wallace McDowell Jr.
Ms. Natalma M. McKnew, Esq.
Multiple Listing Service of Greenville
Naturaland Trust
Parkland Trust Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Pilzer
Mr. Phillip Pittman
Mrs. Dorothy Poston
Brooks Quinn
Ms. Rita S. Rao
Raymond James Charitable Endowment
Fund
Dr. Douglas A. Rayner & Ms. Ellen Tillett
Mr. & Mrs. Porter B. Rose
Mrs. Genevieve L. Sakas & Dr. Basil Manly
IV
Spartanburg County Foundation
Stephens Inc.
Ms. Diane Terni
TSC Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Mr. & Mrs. Irvine T. Welling III
Mr. Mack I. Whittle Jr.
$2,500-4,999
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Baker
The Beaufort Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Bell Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. William Bell
Dr. Michael Brannon
Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
Ms. Jane Rush Davenport
Mr. & Mrs. John O. Downing
Mr. & Mrs. John A. Dreher
Mr. & Mrs. James Fowler
Mr. Martin Gleason
Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Hartness
Hayne Hipp Foundation
Ms. Nancy K. Hedrick
Emily and Numa Hero
Mr. & Mrs. W. Hayne Hipp
Mrs. M. Russell Holliday Jr. & Mr. Arthur H.
Cottingham
Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Larkin Jennings
Ms. Linda Ketelaar
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Lee
Legatus Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. T. Michael Long
Mr. John F. Martin
Piedmont Natural Gas Company
The Post and Courier Foundation
Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts
Program
Mr. Joseph M. Ryan Jr.
SC Manufacturers Alliance
Schwab Charitable Fund
Mr. Wade H. Sherard III
Stony Point Foundation
University of South Carolina
Mr. Van Watts III
$1,000-2,499
Anonymous (2)
Mr. Walter Aerni
Mr. William Algary
Mr. & Mrs. Stan Andrie
Mr. & Mrs. Gayle Averyt
B.C. Moore Foundation
Ms. Karen Baker
Barr, Unger and McIntosh, LLC
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Mr. Russell Bauknight
Mr. & Mrs. Dana Beach
Mrs. Edward B. Beard
Mr. T. A. Beard & Dr. Carol Graf
Mrs. D. M. Beattie
Mrs. Katrina H. Becker
Sara A. Betts
Ms. Lillian T. Bindseil
Mr. John M. Bissell
Ms. Martha C. Black & Mr. George E.
Crouch
Mr. John V. Boehme
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Bryant
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Bunn
Joan Burket
Dr. Garrett Clanton
Community Foundation Of The Lowcountry,
Inc.
Community Foundation of Western NC
Mr. & Mrs. John Cooney
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Cooper III
Mr. Harry J. Crow Jr.
Mr. Richard K. Davis & Mrs. Karen L.
Rylander-Davi
Mr. Gregory C. De Camp
Dorothy D. Smith Charitable Foundation
Mrs. Laura E. duPont
Mr. & Mrs. George A. Durban III
Mr. Robert M. Erwin
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Exley
Mr. & Mrs. John S. Featherston
Mr. & Mrs. John Fellows
Travis Folk, Ph.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ford
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence T. Foster
Francis Beidler Foundation
The Frankovics
Mr. & Mrs. Harold F. Gallivan III
The Garden Club of S.C., Inc.
General Electric Foundation Matching Gift
Program
Mr. & Mrs. Don George
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Giese
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Gilbert
Dr. Greg Goodear
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gorman
Hancock Forest Management, Inc.
Mr. Miles Hayes & Ms. Jacqueline Michel
Mrs. Catherine E. Heigel
Hilton Head Plantation Property Owners
Association, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Anne S. Holleman III
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Howard
Mr. & Mrs. Terry R. Huggins
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Hughes Jr.
Ms. Dawn F. Huntley
Mr. Richard W. Hutson Jr.
Mr. Glenn Jacobs
Mr. & Mrs. Otis Allen Jeffcoat III
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John Winthrop Charity Trust
Phifer Johnson Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. George D. Johnson Jr.
Mr. George R. Johnson
Linda & Larry Johnson
Sarah Jones
Mr. Peter Kalivas
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Kehl
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Keith
Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Kelly
Mr. & Mrs. S. T. Kilty
Mr. & Mrs. Alex Kliros
Ms. Julia E. Krebs & Roger Hux
Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Lane
Law Offices Of Robert Dodson, P.A.
Ms. Anne Rhodes Lee
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Lehner
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lortz
Ms. Catherine Love
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas V. Malloy
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence B. Manning
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew T. Marlow
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Masaschi
Mr. & Mrs. Curtis R. Maxwell
Ms. Patti McAbee
Ms. Karin E. McCormick
Mr. Ron McGimpsey
Rebecca J. & Becky McKay
Dr. & Mrs. William McWilliams Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. M. Lane Morrison
Artus & Ginny Moser
Mrs. Cindy Nord
Mr. & Mrs. Jim O’Connor
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Olson
Mr. Russell Park & Kimberly Ann Halley
Mr. Robert H. Payne & Ms. Elizabeth T.
Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon R. Pollock
Dr. Richard D. Porcher Jr.
Gerald E. & June R. Pusser
Mr. C. Niles Ray
Mrs. Patricia Reed & Mr. Kim Reed
Mrs. May Rhea
Joseph Rice
Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Robertson
Mr. Doug J. Robinson
Mr. L. Roel
Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Rogers
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Rothnie
Ms. Nina Rumbough & Mr. Jan Roosenburg
Dr. & Mrs. William E. Russell
Sara Rutledge
SC Council on Competitiveness
Mrs. Laurinda Schenck
Mr. & Mrs. M. Weldon Schenck
Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Schmidt II
The Schuiling Fund
Mr. & Mrs. James M. Shoemaker Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Shufeldt
Mr. & Mrs. George Smyth Jr.
State Of South Carolina
Mr. Craig O. Stine & Dr. Jeannette Wilcox
Ms. Virgil Story
Ms. Catherine M. Sullivan
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Taylor
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin G. Team Jr.
The George E. Crouch Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Jacques S. Theriot
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Thorne
Mr. & Mrs. Dean O. Trytten
Mr. & Mrs. James Uffelman
Mr. Alden G. Valentine
Vortex Foundation
Wade Crow Engineering
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Webster IV
Ms. Alexandra F. Whitley & Mr. Philip Whitley
Mr. Nelson Willoughby
Wilson Farms Company LLC
Mr. John Winthrop
Mr. & Mrs. Doyle R. Yates
Ziff Properties, Inc.
Matching Gift Companies
Bank of America Matching Gifts
CCM Investment Advisors
Freddie Mac Foundation
General Electric Foundation Matching Gifts
Goldman Sachs Matching Gifts Program
IBM Employee Services Center
Lowe’s Charitable & Educational Foundation
Lowe’s Companies, Incorporated
Microsoft Corporation
Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts
The Williams Companies, Inc.
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TNC Bookshelf
For further reading on topics covered in
this newsletter, our staff recommends
the following titles:
Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise
of An American Forest
by Lawrence S. Early (UNC Press, 2006)
Conserving Southern Longleaf
by Albert G. Way (University of Georgia
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The Nature Principle: Human
Restoration and the End of Nature
by Richard Louv (Algonquin, 2011)
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