Category Archives: South Carolina

DHEC Board denies second bulkhead permit

Nancy Vinson of the Coastal Conservation League reports about their progress in protecting Kiawah Island’s sand spit from development: The DHEC Board did the right thing in denying a second permit for a bulkhead on the river side of Captain Sam’s Spit. They corrected their staff’s inconsistent permit decision (staff had approved it). The DHEC […]
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Mary Edna’s words in the Secret Garden Journal

Up in the Air Editors’ Note:  Mary Edna Fraser transforms her aerial photographs into batiks featured in spaces from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to NASA and Duke University’s Art Museum.  Inspired by environmental concerns, she uses her art for equilibrium.  Her forthcoming book will be published by Duke University’s press.  Visit her exhibit […]
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Kiawah Development Partners adamant about plan that would destroy valuable wildlife and recreation area on Kiawah Spit

When it appeared to Kiawah Development Partners that their efforts to put a concrete bulkhead on top of almost of 3 acres of public trust tidelands on the back side of Captain Sams Spit would fail, they applied for another bulkhead permit. The second “delayed bulkhead permit” would allow a 340-ft long steel sheet pile […]
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