Category Archives: Kiawah Spit

Cecelia Dailey’s article on the plant ecology of the Kiawah Spit published by CoastalCare.org

Read the article Captain Sams Spit, Kiawah Island by Cecelia Dailey, composed in response to continued efforts of developers to build 50 houses on the 150-acre spit of sand. Under the tutelage of botanist Richard Porcher, Dailey challenges the current propaganda of developers who state that the beach is robust and accreting with substantial high […]
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As seas rise, efforts to develop Capt. Sam’s Spit should fall

The Post & Courier published Orrin Pilkey’s editorial “As seas rise, efforts to develop Capt. Sam’s Spit should fall” on Feb. 6, 2016: The level of the sea is rising. There are several reasons for sea level rise, but it is predominantly due to the melting of the Greenland and West Antarctica ice sheets, and […]
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Don’t let one developer change our beachfront management program in South Carolina

It is a shame that one Senator, on the behalf of one developer of a mile of beachfront, is jeopardizing all of South Carolina’s beachfront management program. Please read this recent op-ed by Elizabeth M. Hagood in the Post & Courier: Protect S.C. coast: No retreat from ‘line in the sand’. Bill S.139 will be […]
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