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Winter 2009 ■ Volume 20 No.4
Conservation League
Celebrating
20
Years
Making Our Voice Heard
photograph by Sam Holland

From the Director
All Politics is Local. . . Almost
The Conservation League is founded
on the belief that the most
important conservation work to
be done on the coast is local. We
organized twenty years ago to
counter the explosion of sprawl
that was consuming our rural and
natural landscapes. Our earliest efforts
focused on improving county and city land
use plans and zoning codes. We fought
region-changing developments on places
like Sandy Island, blocked sprawl-inducing
sewer and water lines and new highways,
and prevented the contamination of coastal
rivers and streams from sources like factory
hog operations. Local is where the action
was, and there it remains today.
So what business have we in the
Legislature? In spite of the lack of a state
planning structure, legislative decisions
have an enormous impact on the potential
for good or bad local outcomes. One of
the first battles we fought in Columbia
was over “Takings” bills. Under the guise
of protecting property rights, these laws
would have eliminated the ability of towns,
cities and counties to plan for future
growth by requiring them to pay property
owners when new zoning codes were
enacted or existing codes were changed.
Virtually every year between 1995 and
2002, we opposed Takings bills sponsored
by development lobbyists. And every year
we won. Nancy Vinson served as our
lobbyist until 2000, commuting between
Charleston and Columbia. When the
workload became too great, we opened
a Columbia office with Nancy Stone-
Collum as our first full-time legislative
representative.
Also in 1995, hog industry lobbyists
persuaded a majority of the South Carolina
House to remove local control over
factory hog operations. The same type
of law passed in North Carolina in the
early 1990s and precipitated the flood of
hogs and waste that devastated rivers and
streams when lagoons overflowed during
Hurricane Floyd. Nancy Vinson led the
effort to turn the
bill around in
the Senate and
subsequently
to pass the
nation’s strongest
hog factory
standards. This
law effectively
shut the hog
industry out of
the state.
In 2002, Christie McGregor took over
as the Conservation League’s Legislative
Director. Christie had worked jointly
for The Nature Conservancy and the
Conservation League to pass the S.C.
Conservation Bank Act in the 2001
legislative session. Patty Pierce and
Heather Spires joined the lobby team
in 2007 and 2008, and coordinated our
efforts to reform the Department of
Transportation, to maintain and increase
funding for the Conservation Bank, to
defeat Takings legislation, to maintain
the integrity of the permitting process, to
improve state energy efficiency standards,
and to stop the flow of out-of-state garbage
into South Carolina.
Patrick Moore joined the Columbia
staff in 2009, working on annexation
reform and assisting Heather in
overcoming vigorous industry opposition
to protecting water flows in the state’s rivers
and streams.
It almost goes without saying that
sustained work in Columbia is essential to
maintaining a healthy coast, particularly
in a state with one of the most dominant
legislatures in the nation. But deciding
what legislative battles we take on demands
that we always measure the potential
benefits where it matters most – in the
communities and the natural landscapes of
the South Carolina coast.
Winter 2009 Vol. 20 No. 4
____________________
Staff
Director Dana Beach
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Regional Offices
South Coast
Office Director Garrett Budds
Project Manager Reed Armstrong
Project Manager Andrea Malloy
NORTH Coast
Office Director Nancy Cave
Program Director Grace Gasper
COLUMBIA
Office Director Patrick Moore
Director of Govt. Relations Dennis Glaves
Govt. Relations Coordinator Merrill McGregor
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Programs
Dir. of Conservation Programs Megan Desrosiers
Program Directors
Project Managers
Communications Manager
Nancy Vinson
Josh Martin
Hamilton Davis
Katie Zimmerman
Kate Parks
Gretta Kruesi
____________________
Development
Director
Development Associate
Courtenay Speir
Dana Moorer
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Administration
Director of Administration Cathy Forrester
HR and Admin. Tonnia Switzer
Director of Finance Ashley Waters
Data Manager Nora Kravec
Administrative Assistant Angela Chvarak
Development/Finance Assistant Amanda Watson
Assistant to the Director Eugenia Payne
William Cogswell
Andrea Ziff Cooper
Berry Edwards
Dorothea Benton Frank
Richard T. Hale
Hank Holliday
Holly Hook
Board of Directors
Laura Gates, Chair
Fred Lincoln
Cartter Lupton
Roy Richards
Jeffrey Schutz
Harriet Smartt
Libby Smith
Victoria C. Verity
Advisors and Committee Members
Paul Kimball
Hugh Lane
Jay Mills
Newsletter
Editor Virginia Beach
Designer Julie Frye
P.O. Box 1765 ■ Charleston, SC 29402
Phone: (843) 723-8035 ■ FAX: (843) 723-8308
Email: info@scccl.org
Web site: www.CoastalConservationLeague.org
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Phone: (843) 522-1800
935 Main Street, No. 1 ■ Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 771-7102
P.O. Box 603 ■ Georgetown, SC 29442
Phone: (843) 545-0403
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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.
Despite this challenging environment, the
Conservation League’s legislative team
successfully advanced several items on our
conservation agenda, including improved
energy standards for residential building
codes, restoration of some funding to
the state Conservation Bank, improved
solid waste regulations that reduce the potential for
mega-landfills in the state, and progress towards
consensus on a Fair Share water bill.
We anticipate another
shortened session in 2010,
once again dominated by
budget concerns, overlapping
subcommittee meetings,
and few opportunities for
public hearings. But with
your help, we can maintain a
strong voice for conservation.
We will continue to
work to advance those bills carried over from
last year that addressed annexation reform, water
withdrawal, energy efficiency and clean energy.
Interestingly, as we move through the economic
crisis, there has been a fundamental shift in how
growth and sustainability are viewed. A national
focus on the things that define our communities
– energy use, water stewardship, and public health
protection – has emerged. South Carolina is no
different and the 2010 session offers a chance for
members to get involved in these critical issues of
our time.
Highlights of the Conservation League’s
2010 Legislative Agenda
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Energy Efficiency and Renewables Legislation
1) S.547 creates an energy efficiency resource standard that requires
that energy efficiency goals be met by a certain time.
2) H.3628 reinstates the state Renewable Energy Infrastructure Fund.
Taxpayer Protection through Annexation Reform – H.3253
1) Redefines statutory standing so that citizens negatively affected by
annexation proposals are empowered to challenge them.
2) Improves public notice requirements.
3) Requires annexing municipalities to publish a “Plan of Services”
prior to approval of all annexation proposals.
4) Ensures all annexations are consistent with local land use plans.
5) Limits inappropriate “shoestring” annexations of remote properties.
Fair Share Water Bill – S.452
1) Establishes a water withdrawal permitting program for S.C.
2) Sets a minimum water flow standard based on seasonal variations
that mimic natural river flows.
Sustain the Conservation Bank
The S.C. Conservation Bank has protected more than 152,000
acres of South Carolina’s most valuable natural resources. Protecting
ecologically significant lands and historic sites since 2004, the
Conservation Bank is one of the most productive state agencies,
providing more than six dollars of taxpayer value for every one dollar
of public monies spent. The Conservation League will continue to
advocate for fair funding of the Conservation Bank.
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Legislative Advocacy
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
Since its founding 20 years
ago, the Coastal Conservation
League has grown to be
a major political player
in South Carolina. It was not until
2000 that the Conservation League
opened a permanent legislative office in
Columbia. Yet, even in that first decade
of commuting between Charleston and
the State House – when staffers Nancy
Vinson and Jane Lareau were fighting
the factory hog industry – the young
environmental group was gaining the ear
of the General Assembly. Lawmakers
quickly found they could trust the
reasoned analysis of the League and trust
that a strong, informed citizenry was
backing it up.
“We’ve always seen our role as one
of facilitating citizen involvement in the
arena of public decision making,” says
League founder and Executive Director
Dana Beach. “The goal is to see that our
beautiful environment and exceptional
quality of life are safeguarded by the best
policy decisions possible in land use and
transportation planning, environmental
permitting, state legislation and
regulations, public funding for land
conservation, infrastructure investment
Thank Heavens for the Coastal Conservation League. Nancy, Jane,
and Dana, along with many other professionals and volunteers,
have made a difference in South Carolina. I can't imagine how the
Legislature would be able to help look after our state's precious
coastal resources without them. Knowledgeable, insightful,
resourceful with boundless energy, it is a pleasure to work with the
Conservation League. Happy Birthday CCL and thank you, Dana, for
your vision. – Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter)
and a whole host of actions on the state
level that affect South Carolinians in
their everyday lives.”
Creating an environmentally sound
vision of the future and helping citizens
and their representatives realize that
vision is no small task. Over the last
two decades, the League has developed
long-term, working partnerships with
state legislators and countless other
environmental and public interest
groups. These partnerships across the
state have resulted in legislation and
policy reform that enhance the quality
of life of our local communities, both
large and small.
What follows is a sampling of the
Conservation League’s 20-year record
of State House advocacy for greater
protection of South Carolina’s lands,
waters and public health. There are
accounts of successful battles waged
against massive swine slaughterhouses,
Cooper River polluters, and extreme
Takings legislation, while at the same
time, stories of remarkable coalitions
of stakeholders coming together to
dedicate permanent public funding for
land preservation, pass a Neighborhood
Schools Act, and reform transportation
policy and criteria for new road
building in South Carolina.
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Legislative Advocacy
Round One of the Hog Fight
Protecting the People – At the urging of Pee Dee farmers
and the Conservation League, Governor Jim Hodges signs
legislation strengthening factory hog farming regulations.
Together, we have worked to ensure a clean, bright
future for South Carolina and have opposed those
who have tried to make us a dump for out-of-state
waste. Now, we face the energy challenge of
tomorrow, where efficiency must become an active
and attainable goal to ensuring affordable energy
without a declining standard of living.
– President Pro Tempore of the S.C. Senate,
Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
It’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
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.
The Conservation League is delighted with this “halftime”
victory, which will make it difficult for corporate
agri-business to achieve the density of hogs per acre needed
to support a major slaughterhouse until strong regulations
can be put in place to protect residents and the environment
from the waste produced by these swine factories. However,
despite these impressive strides, the Conservation League
believes the state needs to do more.
Even though Governor Beasley’s administration is
not actively recruiting IBP, the massive slaughterhouse
can still locate here and, in fact, is actively considering
South Carolina. Miraculously, by the following year, the
Conservation League has achieved the unthinkable for a
poor, southern state. Even with IBP and Smithfield Foods,
two of the nation’s most powerful pork producers, courting
the Governor and the General Assembly, the League
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
If 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
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
protects South Carolina’s rivers from industrial pollution.
In 1998, the General Assembly passed new rules that
allowed additional pollutants to be dumped into various rivers
Clean Water is a Birthright – (l-r) League Water
Quality Director Nancy Vinson worked with Senators Glenn
McConnell, Arthur Ravenel and Brad Hutto in the 1990s to
strengthen water quality regulations.
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Legislative Advocacy
around the state, including the Cooper
and the Waccamaw. The new rules were
pushed through by the Cooper River
Water Users Association – an alliance
of industries and utilities that discharge
millions of gallons of waste into the
Cooper River each year – and endorsed
by DHEC, despite the fact that 20%
of the users had violated their waste
discharge permits over the preceding
two years.
Early in 1999, Senators McConnell
and Ravenel introduced a bill that
simply reversed the previous year’s
damaging legislation. However, it soon
became clear that this bill would go
nowhere; the Cooper River industries
and utilities had too many lobbyists on
their payroll. So the senators came up
with new legislation that required users
to make their case to the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR) instead
of to the Department of Health and
Environmental Control (DHEC).
But when the Cooper River Water
Users discovered that they would have
to provide rigorous scientific proof that
additional discharges would not harm
shellfish and juvenile fish, they balked.
Then Nancy Vinson stepped in and was
able to broker an agreement between
the users and the senators that kept the
senators’ important provision intact and
allowed the more stringent regulations
to become law. As Senator McConnell
stated, “It was a great day for the state.
It gave us a manageable water quality
standard to protect our rivers.”
Dana Beach
The Burden Lifted
W
hen the “inordinate
burden” bill came
barreling out of the
House in 1997, many
people feared that it
could not be stopped. The proposed
law, similar to Takings bills being
introduced across the country in
state legislatures, had been vigorously
promoted by a statewide coalition
of developer, billboard and factory
farming interests. The legislation
promised cash payment to landowners
who claimed that their property
had been inordinately burdened by
It has been gratifying to work with the Coastal Conservation League
in attempting to protect my district as well as preserve and adhere
to a lifetime aim as it relates to the environment. Clean water and
clean air are a birthright. They are sacrosanct and must be passed on
to our children. – Senator Gerald Malloy (D-Darlington)
measures that protect quality of life and
conserve natural resources – measures
such as basic zoning, tree ordinances,
historic preservation ordinances,
billboard controls and water quality
standards.
In March of that year, the
Conservation League released a powerful
report drafted by Florida economist Dr.
Henry Fishkind and a team of expert
appraisers, developers, planners and
attorneys. Their analysis revealed that
Takings legislation would cost the State
of South Carolina more than $126
million in the first year alone, with most
of that going to pay for attorneys and
appraisers’ fees and other litigation and
administration costs.
On April 8th, Senator McConnell
invited the public to address a special
Senate subcommittee convened to
examine the bill. League Director
Dana Beach briefed the senators on
Dr. Fishkind’s fiscal impact study and
raised such serious questions about the
legislation that the subcommittee felt
compelled to set aside considerable time
for more hearings and deliberation.
Meanwhile, the Conservation
League had launched a “Beat the
Burden” campaign, conducting
mailings and building a database of
activists, who were speaking out at
hearings, writings letters to the editors
of major newspapers across the state,
and educating the public about this
harmful legislation. Eventually, the
League’s Beat the Burden campaign
created such doubt regarding Takings
legislation that the proposed bill
never made it out of the Senate
subcommittee.
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Legislative Advocacy
A Land Bank for South Carolina
Courtesy of the Post and Courier
Like clockwork, harmful Takings
legislation continued to be
introduced annually in the S.C.
General Assembly, and year
after year, the Conservation
League and its allies were there to beat
it back. In contrast, in 2001, legislation
with a completely different purpose 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
environmentally significant and historic
properties.
At the time, South Carolina was
losing 200 acres a day of rural land to
development, with no dedicated public
funds for land protection. Meanwhile,
states like Florida and Maryland
were spending hundreds of millions
of dollars each year to permanently
protect their special places. So critical
was this proposed legislation to land
conservation in South Carolina that the
Conservation League joined with The
Nature Conservancy to hire Christie
McGregor as a full-time Land Legacy
Initiative Coordinator. Her mission?
To get the S.C. Conservation Bank Act
passed.
The seeds for such landmark
legislation were sown back in 1997,
when League Director Dana Beach
organized a steering committee
for what would become the S.C.
Landscape Mapping Project, a plan
to identify high priority conservation
lands in South Carolina. The steering
committee included the Conservation
League, Ducks Unlimited, The Nature
Conservancy, the Lowcountry Open
Land Trust, MeadWestvaco, the ACE
Basin Task Force and the Audubon
Society. More than 75 of the state’s
leading biologists, foresters, historians,
Land Legacy – A public commitment to land conservation is paying dividends
in the Palmetto State.
Congratulations to the Coastal Conservation League on their 20th
anniversary. I am proud to be a long-time member, for we have been
in the forefront of multiple efforts to conserve the Palmetto State’s
natural resources and beauty. We have advanced conservation public
policy, which has helped create a greater awareness of environmental
issues. I appreciate the dedication of the Coastal Conservation
League’s staff and the many financial supporters.
– Senator John Courson (R-Richland)
botanists, ecologists and conservationists
joined in the mapping effort.
Once the most important lands and
sites were identified, Beach and other
members of the committee began a
series of discussions on how to fund
acquisition or protection of these
properties. Conservationist Charles
Lane proposed the land bank idea
to Rep. Campsen, who crafted a bill
that would set aside a percentage of
South Carolina’s real estate transfer fee
– about $8-to-$10 million annually
– to preserve the state’s natural and
historic sites. On April 18th, 2002,
the Conservation Bank Act – five years
in the making – cleared the House
and Senate and was signed into law by
Governor Jim Hodges.
Mapping the Palmetto State –
The S.C. Landscape Mapping Project
identified the state’s most environmentally
significant and historic properties.
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Legislative Advocacy
Neighborhood Schools
In 1999, the Conservation
League asked summer
intern Christopher Kouri,
of Duke University’s
Institute of Public Policy,
to survey 200 public schools
throughout the Lowcountry
about their size, location and
accessibility. Chris and a team of
volunteers documented that new
schools were far less walkable than
schools built in earlier decades.
They also found that new school
sites were much larger than they
needed to be, and consequently
were forced to locate at the edge
of communities rather than at
their center.
In addition, due to the
growing distance between
home and school, parents
were becoming less involved
in their children’s schools. So
not only were children losing
the opportunity for the healthy
and rich experience of walking
or biking to school, the study
concluded, but the chance for
greater parental and community
involvement in children’s
education was diminished as well.
What Chris discovered was
that South Carolina’s minimum
acreage requirements for new
schools were higher than in other
states, forcing school districts to
seek cheaper land far from town
and inducing unnecessary sprawl
along the way. Often, new
school sites would be selected
by real estate developers and
either sold cheaply or donated
to the school system. In fact, a
new school would boost nearby
property values of what was
formerly cheap land located far
from a town center or services.
To address this disconnect
between good community
planning and school siting, the
Conservation League urged
the state Superintendent of
Education, Inez Tenenbaum,
to establish a committee of
architects, engineers and school
administrators to revise the
voluminous “School Facilities
Planning and Construction
Guide” to allow for more
flexibility at the local level for
siting and designing community
friendly schools. In 2003, the
committee’s work resulted in the
passage of the Neighborhood
Schools Act, which lessened
minimum acreage requirements,
thus promoting the construction
of smaller neighborhood schools.
The Coastal Conservation League has been
outstanding in providing information to elected
officials on issues and policies that protect
the environment and green spaces. Our local
communities have benefited greatly from smart
land use and infrastructure policies. I applaud
the hard work of the Coastal Conservation
League in maintaining our quality of life.
Representative Robert Brown (D-Charleston)
Check it Out
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
Dana Beach
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Legislative Advocacy
Reforming DOT
For decades, transportation
planning in South Carolina was
a shoot from the hip, seat of the
pants affair. Just who got to
decide when a new road should
be built and on what rationale was a
mystery. There was no requirement for
road projects to be objectively analyzed
to determine whether they would
improve traffic flow or make it worse.
No one was charged with looking at less
costly alternatives to reduce congestion.
Instead, our state Department of
Transportation (DOT) was spending
billions of public dollars on projects
that failed to address South Carolina’s
most pressing transportation challenges.
For example, if the powerful mayor of
Rogue Roads – In 2007, the
Conservation League and a 36-member
reform coalition convinced the General
Assembly to pass sweeping DOT Reform
legislation.
As author of the S. C. Conservation Bank, I can always count on
the Conservation League to stand with me in the fight to keep the
Bank funded to preserve South Carolina’s exceptional quality of life.
Recently, the League has been an invaluable ally in my efforts to
ensure that our riverine ecosystems – and the public’s right to enjoy
those ecosystems – take precedence over future industrial users as
we hammer out surface water permitting legislation. The talent and
resources the League brings to bear on these and other conservation
issues are nonpareil. – Senator Chip Campsen (R-Charleston)
a small town wanted a bypass or a well
connected developer needed a new road
to serve his property, one would simply
get a politician to put it on the DOT
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
an understanding of the relationship
between land use and transportation,
DOT consistently lavished enormous
amounts of our tax monies on projects
that benefited special interests at the
expense of mobility and safety statewide.
In doing so, DOT was unnecessarily
degrading South Carolina’s environment
and destroying the character of its
communities.
In 2006, the conservation community
– led by the Conservation League and
the Southern Environmental Law Center
(SELC) – demanded that no additional
taxpayer support, fees or taxes should
be allocated to DOT until fundamental
restructuring and reform could be
instituted. What followed was nearly
a year of intense work on the part of
League staff, sympathetic legislators, and
a 36-member reform coalition to craft
legislation that would implement the
necessary change and discipline at DOT.
The bill that emerged after much
debate included several transportation
improvement priorities developed by
the League, including timely public
hearings, funding priority given to
roads and bridges consistent with
local land use plans, and criteria for
project selection that would provide
the greatest economic benefit with the
least environmental impact. League
Legislative Liaison Patty Pierce, working
with David Farren of SELC, led the
effort.
Finally on June 27th, 2007,
Governor Mark Sanford signed longawaited
DOT Reform legislation – Act
114 – into law. But the work wasn’t
finished. In the course of the following
year, Pierce and Farren worked closely
with DOT staff to ensure that the
new law was translated into clear and
meaningful regulations. The League
continues to monitor implementation of
this landmark legislation.
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At the State House
Policy in the Making
A Legislative Time Line: 1989 – 2009
THE FIRST DECADE
Laying the Groundwork
1989
w CCL opens its first office, on King St. in
Charleston, with a staff of three.
w CCL collects nearly 6,000 signatures on
petition urging the Legislative Task Force
on Solid Waste to adopt the strongest
possible recycling recommendations.
w CCL review reveals that DHEC’s analysis
of 13 years of water monitoring data
on Charleston Harbor is flawed and
misleading.
1994
w CCL opens South Coast Office
in Beaufort.
w Nancy Vinson becomes CCL's first
full-time Water Quality Director.
w CCL calls for strengthening state’s
septic system regulations to prevent
contamination of groundwater.
1995
w CCL leads state opposition to amendments
weakening the Clean Water and Endangered
Species Acts.
w CCL begins battle to strengthen
S.C.’s factory hog farming laws.
w CCL launches campaign to beat
back harmful Takings legislation
that would threaten rights of
local jurisdictions to zone and
plan for growth.
1990
w CCL sponsors first Coastal Land
Planning Conference.
w CCL begins assisting ACE Basin Task
Force with land use, regulatory and
road policy issues.
w CCL and NRDC file an amicus curia
brief in defense of S.C.’s 1988 Beachfront
Management Act against two challenges by
beachfront landowners.
1993
w CCL halts extension of docks over
state shellfish beds.
w CCL launches effort to reform state
transportation policy.
w CCL forces important reforms to the
Development Agreement Act.
w CCL works with gubernatorial
candidates to advocate for statewide
growth management.
1996
w CCL and citizen advocates convince
S.C. General Assembly to pass the Swine
Bill – comprising the toughest factory
hog farming regulations in the nation.
w At the urging of CCL and state
resource agencies, DOT establishes a
Wetlands Mitigation Fund.
w CCL co-sponsors Eastern States
Conference on Creating More Livable
Communities.
1991
w CCL begins work with OCRM to reform
dock regulations.
w CCL initiates fight to stop Interstate 73
– the Detroit to Charleston Highway.
w CCL persuades S.C. Highway Commission
to institute a major new policy requiring
DOT to take into account the impact of
road projects on trees.
1992
w CCL hires Sam Passmore as its first
full-time Land Use Director.
w CCL, Friends of the Earth and CLEAN file
suit under Clean Water Act to prevent
Wolverine Brass from violating its DHEC
permit.
w CCL and allies defeat “Cost-Benefit”
legislation that would have threatened state
environmental and land use regulations.
1997
w CCL and partners successfully
lobby Congress to include federal
tax incentives for conservation
easement donors.
w CCL provides state resource agencies
with study on boat wakes and erosion.
w CCL’s nomination of Cape Romain
and Santee waters to Outstanding
Resource Waters succeeds in upgrading
area to highest protection possible.
1998
w Beat the Burden campaign led by
CCL and its conservation partners
defeats most extreme Takings bill yet.
w CCL assists residents in Beaufort and
Charleston Counties in halting bridges
to marsh islands.
w I-73 is successfully
rerouted to Myrtle Beach.
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At the State House
THE SECOND DECADE
A Permanent Presence at
the State House
2001
w CCL and key legislators strengthen
factory hog farming regulations.
w Two new Takings bills are introduced
in the Legislature and beaten back.
w CCL works with Lowcountry Open
Land Trust and Cooper River landowners
to preserve colonial village site of
Childsbury.
2000
w CCL opens permanent, full-time
Legislative Office in Columbia, with
Nancy Stone-Collum as its first director.
w CCL’s Greenbelt Education Project and
Strom Thurmond Institute publish Urban
Growth Maps that graphically reveal the
threat of uncontrolled growth in S.C.
w CCL helps pass S.C.’s first Conservation
Easement Tax Credit Bill.
1999
w CCL begins its second decade
with 17 full-time staff working out of offices in
Georgetown, Beaufort and Charleston.
w Beaufort County passes Zoning Ordinance
with help from CCL and launches state’s first
Purchase of Development Rights program.
w CCL works with legislators to successfully
restore stronger water quality standards for
state’s rivers, creeks, estuaries and lakes.
2002
w CCL establishes online Activist Network.
w Culminating a five-year effort, S.C.
Conservation Bank Act is signed into law by
Governor Jim Hodges.
w CCL and citizen activists successfully
mitigate changes to the Beachfront
Management Act affecting
highly eroding beaches.
2005
w After more than a decade, CCL and its allies
persuade Legislature to expand state Grand Jury
powers to investigate environmental crimes.
w CCL works with lawmakers to prevent passage
of Billboard Protection Act.
w CCL works with advisory committee to draft
landmark regulations protecting marsh islands
and public trust tidelands from bridging and
over-development.
2006
w CCL and its conservation partners
launch weekly citizen Lobby Days at the
State House.
w CCL and its allies successfully promote a
bill to allow state Heritage Trust Program
to issue bonds for land purchases.
w CCL takes the lead in defeating Takings
legislation for another year.
2008
w CCL partners with electric
cooperatives and utilities to enact
five energy efficiency bills.
w CCL begins initiative to establish a
surface water withdrawal permitting
program to protect the state’s
riverine ecosystems.
w CCL launches campaign to
reform S.C.’s outdated
annexation laws.
2003
w CCL begins campaign for DOT
transportation policy reform.
w CCL works with Governor’s Office
and Department of Education to pass
Neighborhood Schools Act.
w S.C. Land Use Dispute Resolution Act
passes, providing reasonable measures
to resolve zoning conflicts between
landowners and local governments.
2004
w CCL launches successful campaign to
ensure full funding for Conservation Bank.
w CCL and nine other conservation
organizations host first Conservation Lobby
Day and Legislative Breakfast.
w In response to CCL research and data,
Attorney General McMaster rules that OCRM
cannot issue permits for bridges to marsh
islands without proof of private
ownership.
2007
w DOT Reform becomes law after years
of intense work on the part of CCL and
its allies.
w Five years in the making, the Priority
Investment Act is signed into law.
w CCL works with lawmakers to
eliminate “river shacks” from public
trust waters.
w Green Buildings legislation passes.
2009
w CCL persuades General Assembly to
update S.C. residential building energy code.
w CCL and citizen activists pressure waste
industry to accept greatly improved
Determination of Need regulations on new
landfill construction.
w CCL works toward passage of Fair Share
water bill.
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2nd Annual Charleston Green Fair
Members' Corner
Thousands of citizens and more
than 100 exhibitors participated in
Charleston’s Green Fair at Marion
Square on September 27th. The
Green Fair was sponsored by
the Charleston City Paper, the Coastal
Conservation League, the City of Charleston,
Lowcountry Local First and a host of other
conservation-minded organizations. Local
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” contest, organized
and sponsored by the League. Grand prize
was $500 and a free session at Awendaw
Green recording studio.
Jesse Colin Young (center in white shirt) and his wife, South Carolina native
Connie Darden-Young (in blue on violin), perform for the Conservation League’s
Music with a Message concert on September 27th.
Music with a Message winners included Corey Webb (center) and his Bodies of Magic
band with Kristin Abbott (left), along with Colleen Yost (far right), a seventh-grader at
Charleston School of the Arts.
(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 Clemson University.
Williamsburg Party
The Chandler family recently hosted a
party for Pee Dee supporters of the
Conservation League on their family
lands in Williamsburg County, near the
town 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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Members' Corner
Land Use 101
Conservation 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
the 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) League Land Use Director Josh Martin and Walterboro
supporter Weldon Schenck.
(l-r) Members Chris DeScherer
and Amanda Honeycutt, with
League Project Manager Kate
Parks.
(l-r) Hollywood Mayor Jackie
Heyward with Lowcountry Open
Land Trust Chair Margaret
Blackmer.
(l-r) Nelson Chandler, Weave Whitehead, Anna Chandler
and Emily Whitehead stand in front of the recently restored
McFadden-Chandler House.
(l-r) Sarah McDaniel, William Chandler and Charlie
Cook enjoy family and friends at the Williamsburg County
party for the Conservation League.
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Members' Corner
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
Ansel Adams: Masterworks from the
collection of the Turtle Bay Exploration
Center, Redding, California opened
this fall at the Columbia Museum
of Art and runs through January
17th, 2010. The collection of 47 gelatin
silver prints by Ansel Adams (1902 -1984)
represents a selection Adams made late in his
life to serve as a representation of his life’s
work and what he felt were his best images.
The Rising Sea, by Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young
By 2100 – in only the time it will take a child born
today to grow old – the seas are projected by some
experts to rise by as much as seven feet. Orrin
H. Pilkey and Rob Young explain the daunting
consequences of sea level rise in their new book, The
Rising Sea (Island Press hardcover).
For a limited time only, Island Press is offering Coastal
Conservation League members a 25% discount on each
purchase of The Rising Sea. Please visit www.islandpress.
org/risingsea and use the discount code: 5RSEA.
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In House
Welcome New Staff
Courtenay Speir has
joined the staff of the Coastal
Conservation League as its
new Director of Development,
replacing Nancy Cregg, who
is retiring after more than four
years of outstanding work in
membership and development.
Courtenay comes to us
from Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts in New York City, where she
was Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships and
Development. Prior to Lincoln Center, Courtenay
worked for Sotheby’s Auction House and in arts
management and conservation in New York.
A graduate of Fordham University with a B.A. in
History of Art, Courtenay is currently working on
a Master in Public Administration from New York
University. She and her husband, Andrew, grew up
in the South and are excited to return. Courtenay
enjoys opera, symphonic music, ballet, travel,
backpacking, running and tournament golf.
A native of Milwaukee,
Merrill McGregor became
the Government Relations
Coordinator for the
Conservation League in
October. She is sister to
Christie McGregor, former
director of the League’s
Columbia office and now
Director of Government
Relations for the S.C. Nature Conservancy.
Before coming to the League, Merrill served as
the office manager for the Lucas Group, an executive
recruiting firm in Chicago. She coordinated
operations for more than 40 recruiters, providing
research support on industry trends and competitive
data. She also worked for the healthcare investment
and consulting firm, the Dorenfest Group, managing
all administrative support for the CEO and
conducting research related to international health
care policy.
A graduate of the College of Charleston, Merrill
was a volunteer in the Conservation League’s
legislative office before joining the staff. She also has
served as a volunteer ESL Tutor in Columbia and
taught English in Quito, Ecuador.
William Cogswell Joins Board
We are pleased to announce that William
Cogswell, Jr. has joined the board of the
Coastal Conservation League. Since 1997,
William has been in the development and
construction business. His background also
includes work in planning, preservation, real
estate equity funds, commercial brokerage,
and green construction.
After receiving a graduate degree from
Columbia University in 2003, William
formed Standard Precast Walls, LLC to complement his
development efforts and to introduce a more sustainable, energy
efficient building envelope to the Southeastern market. WECCO
Construction, LLC was formed in early 2006 in order to complete
the design-build process.
William is a native of Charleston and a graduate of the
University of the South. He is actively involved with the Urban
Land Institute, Historic Charleston Foundation and The Nature
Conservancy.
Thank You
The Conservation League bids farewell to
three dedicated trustees
George Johnston joined the Conservation League board in 2003
and he and his wife, Kathy, have been long-time advocates for local
environmental causes in the Beaufort area. George also founded and
administrates “Enviroexec,” a listserv that advocates for smart growth
and environmental issues in Beaufort County and the surrounding
region. A retired consultant to the international shipping industry,
George has contributed immeasurably to his adopted Lowcountry.
Mary Kennemur, a native of Columbia, S.C., has charted new
ground in the professional world while never failing to give back to
her community. Formerly one of nine managing directors for Merrill
Lynch, she was the first woman to be named to the S.C. Retirement
Systems Investment Panel. As Mary steps down from the board of
the Conservation League, she assumes Chairmanship in 2010 of the
board of the United Way of the Midlands.
As a second-term trustee of the Conservation League, Gillian Roy
fully embraced South Carolina as her adopted home. Full-time
residents of Pawleys Island, Gillian and her husband, Peter, quickly
became active with both environmental and social justice issues
in the Lowcountry. Gillian now plans to devote more time to the
Safe Families Initiative, a new nonprofit she recently founded that
is dedicated to creating a Family Justice Center in Georgetown,
providing services to victims of domestic violence.
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Thank You!
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+
Anonymous (4)
Penny and Bill Agnew
American Rivers, Inc.
Anthony and Linda Bakker
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Berry
The William Bingham Foundation
Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation
Butler Conservation Fund, Inc.
Charlotte Caldwell and Jeffrey Schutz
The Margaret A. Cargill Foundation
Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust
Ceres Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Chitty
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
Strachan Donnelley Family Charitable
Lead Unitrust
Vivian Donnelley Charitable Trust
Mrs. Vivian Donnelley
The Festoon Foundation, Inc.
Dorothea and Peter Frank
Nancy and Larry Fuller
Laura and Steve Gates
William and Mary Greve Foundation
John C. Griswold Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Hale
Joanna Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Lane
Mr. Hugh C. Lane, Jr.
Mills Bee Lane Foundation
Mr. T. Cartter Lupton II
Lyndhurst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McShane
Merck Family Fund
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Miller
Mrs. Alexander Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Moses
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
New Morning Foundation
The Osprey Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr.
Post and Courier Foundation
V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation
Jeffrey Schutz and Charlotte Caldwell
Mrs. Anne Rivers Siddons and
Mr. Heyward Siddons
Ms. Dorothy D. Smith
Libby Smith
Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Tenney
H.L. Thompson, Jr. Family Foundation
COASTAL LEGACY SOCIETY
The Coastal Legacy Society honors those who have provided for the
Coastal Conservation League through their wills or estate plans. By
making a gift to the Coastal Legacy Society, you will join this group of
extraordinary individuals in their commitment to protect the Lowcountry
for generations. If you are interested in finding out more about naming
the Coastal Conservation League in your will or estate plans, please
contact Development Director Courtenay Speir at (843) 723-9895.
Anonymous (2)
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting
Russell and Judith Burns
Charlotte Caldwell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Coffee, Jr.
Ms. Marcia Curtis
Howard Drew
Carol B. Ervin
Mrs. Mary C. Everts
Dr. Annette G. Godow
Miss Florence E. Goodwin
Katherine M. Huger
Jane Lareau
Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles
Dr. Thomas R. Mather
Miles F. McSweeney
Ellen and Mayo Read
Mr. Jason A. Schall
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tecklenburg
Janis Hammett-Wegman and Charles Wegman
George W. Williams
Mr. Daniel K. Thorne
Daniel K. Thorne Foundation, Inc.
Gary and Mary Beth Thornhill
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Vardell III
and Family
WestWind Foundation
Joe and Terry Williams
Yawkey Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous (4)
Mr. J. Marshall Allen
Banbury Fund, Inc.
John and Jane Beach
Virginia and Dana Beach
Henry M. Blackmer Foundation, Inc.
Mrs. Margaret N. Blackmer
Ms. Margaret P. Blackmer
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleveland
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Coen
The Edward Colston Foundation, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cowgill
Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. Dudley
Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Fair, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Scott Fennell
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Fennell
James L. Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert
Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hagerty
Mr. and Mrs. John Philip Kassebaum
Linda Ketner
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Laco
Lakeside Foundation
Lau Associates LLC
Ms. Bokara Legendre
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Masaschi
Mr. and Mrs. Irenee duPont May
Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meier
Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Mitchell, Jr.
Mr. Guy Paschal
Price R. and Flora A. Reid Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Said
Mrs. Alexander F. Schenck
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Schenck
Southern Environmental Law Center, Inc.
Tara Foundation
Jane Smith Turner Foundation
Ms. Jane S. Turner
Susan and Trenholm Walker
$2,000 - $4,999
Anonymous (1)
Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Allen
Ms. Marianne H. Ball
Nancy and Billy Cave
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold B. Chace, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Munroe Cobey
Cobey Family Fund of Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Cooper
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Nancy and Steve Cregg
Mr. Hal Currey and Ms. Margaret Schachte
Mrs. Mary C. Cutler
Ms. Connie Darden-Young and
Mr. Jesse Colin Young
Mr. and Mrs. P. Steven Dopp
Mr. and Mrs. Berry Edwards
Ms. Carol B. Ervin
The Hilliard Family Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Hilliard
James and Margaret Hoffman
Holly H. Hook and Dennis A. Glaves
Billie and Alan Houghton
Dr. William Kee
Bob and Jackie Lane
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Leath, Jr.
Dr. Franklin Lee
Dr. Suzanne Lindsay and Mr. Bruce Lindsay
The Suzanne and Bruce Lindsay
Charitable Foundation
Mr. Lorcan Lucey
Lucey Mortgage Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Maize, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. G. Alex Marsh III
Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Marshall
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Mather
Mr. P. O. Mead III
Mr. and Mrs. James O. Mills
Mrs. William Moredock
The Morning Sun Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Parks
Charles and Celeste Patrick
Mrs. Ann Percival
Ms. Cynthia Swanson Powell
Mrs. Harriet McDougal Rigney
Mr. John M. Rivers, Jr.
John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
Gillian and Peter Roy
Ms. Martha Jane Soltow
Mr. and Mrs. T. Paul Strickler
Charles and Jo Summerall
Mr. Robert L. Underwood
Ms. Lisa Wackenhutt
Dr. Robert Ellis Welch, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Wyrick, Jr.
Ziff Properties Charleston
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Ziff
$1,000 - $1,999
Anonymous (5)
Drs. T. Brantley and Penny Arnau
Chuck and Betsy Baker
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Barrett, Jr.
Mrs. Ann R. Baruch
Mrs. Katrina Becker
Mr. L. Russell Bennett
Blackbaud, Inc.
Dr. Eloise Bradham and Dr. Mark George
The Brumley Family Foundation Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Brumley
Ms. Amy Bunting
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Foundation
Bob and Cris Cain

Thank You!
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cart
Mr. Anthony Cecil
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Chaffin, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Crawford
Dr. and Mrs. Richard L. Cross
Mr. and Mrs. Wade C. Crow
Mr. R. Gordon Darby
Mrs. Jane Blair Bunting Darnell
Mrs. Emily Darnell-Nunez
Mrs. Palmer Davenport
Michael and Megan Desrosiers
Ms. Laura Donnelley
Mr. and Mrs. F. Reed Dulany, Jr.
Ms. Margaret D. Fabri
Mr. H. McDonald Felder
Dr. and Mrs. Philip A. Finley
Rev. and Mrs. David Fort
Mr. Robert W. Foster, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Freeman
Mr. and Mrs. E. Stack Gately
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gephart, Jr.
The Good Works Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Hawkins
Holly Houghton and David Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Calvert W. Huffines
Robert L. Huffines, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
Mrs. Robert R. Huffman
Ms. Holly R. Jensen
Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Kellogg
Ms. Nunally Kersh and Mr. Robert Stehling
Mrs. Harriet Keyserling
Mrs. Dudley Knott
Mrs. Hugh C. Lane
Scott and Gayle Lane
Mr. Roy F. Laney
Dr. Diane D. Lauritsen
Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson
Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Leak
Charlie and Sally Lee
The Little-Reid Conservation Fund of the
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
Kathie Livingston
Mrs. Walden E. Lown
Mike and JoAnne Marcell
Mrs. Frank M. McClain
Mr. John L. McCormick
Ms. Jamie Young McCulloch
Mr. and Mrs. Barclay McFadden III
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McGee
Ms. Martha Morgan
Russell E. and Elizabeth
W. Morgan Foundation
Mr. Hugh Comer Morrison
Nature Adventures Outfitters, Inc.
Mr. P. Sherrill Neff and Ms. Alicia Felton
Mrs. Elizabeth B. O'Connor
Ms. Elizabeth F. Orser
Dr. Robert Payne and
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas
Mrs. Joan C. Pittman
Plantation Services, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Prevost
Mrs. Charles D. Ravenel
Mr. and Mrs. S. Kim Reed
Dr. Georgia C. Roane
David W. and Susan G. Robinson
Foundation
Mrs. David Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Rothnie, Jr.
Rothnie Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable
Gift Fund
Bob Rymer and Catherine Anne Walsh
In my first year as a state senator, I have enjoyed working with the Coastal
Conservation League on important legislation that will improve our quality of
life, including the following: the surface water withdrawal bill, a moratorium
on new mega-dumps, additional funding for the Conservation Land Bank,
converting DHEC to a cabinet agency, promoting the new Jasper County port
and reforming our state’s outdated annexation laws.
– Senator Tom Davis (R-Beaufort)
Mr. Lee Schepps and Ms. Barbara Cottrell
Dr. H. Del Schutte, Jr.
Mr. T. Grange Simons V
Mr. Matt Sloan
Ms. Donna K. Smith
Dorothy D. Smith Charitable Foundation
Southern States Educational Foundation Inc.
James Gustave Speth Fund for the
Environment of the Open Space Institute, Inc.
William and Shanna Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Jan S. Suwinski
Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Symington, Jr.
Mr. Mark C. Tanenbaum
Dr. Ann Truesdale and Mr. James Truesdale
Tom Uffelman and Patty Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Greg VanDerwerker
Sally Webb
Ms. Barbara L. Welch
Ms. Martha C. Worthy
$500 - $999
Anonymous (2)
Ms. Carrie Agnew
Mr. and Mrs. Conrad P. Albert
Ms. Vivian D'Amato Asche
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Avery
Mr. and Mrs. James Bailey, Jr.
Mary Ruth and William Baxter
Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Beaton
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Beattie
William M. Bird & Co., Inc.
Blackwater, LLC
Judge William Campbell and
Ms. Susan Hilfer
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Carson, Jr.
Leigh Mary W. Carter Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Carter
Mr. and Mrs. T. Heyward Carter, Jr.
Mrs. Ann Rodgers Chandler
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Childs
Mr. and Mrs. James Coker
Dr. H. Paul Cooler
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Creech
Mr. Malcolm M. Crosland, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. William F. Crosswell
Ms. Rebecca R. Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin E. Davis
Mr. Chris Davis
Curtis and Arianna Derrick
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Eaton
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Eidt, Jr.
Mr. D. Reid Ellis
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ethridge III
Ms. Nina M. Fair
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Feldman
Ms. Catherine H. Forrester
Alison and Arthur Geer
Drs. Andrew Geer and Susan Moore
Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. Geer
Ms. Melanie Gnazzo
Dr. Annette G. Godow
Ms. Amanda Griffith
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hagood
Mr. and Mrs. D. Maybank Hagood
Blair and Nancy Hahn
Half-Moon Outfitters
Dr. Angela Halfacre
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hanlin
Dr. Kit M. Hargrove
Mrs. Charlotte McCrady Hastie
Whitney and Elizabeth Hatch, via the Ayco
Charitable Foundation
Oliver R. Head, Jr. and Mary M. Head Gift
Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Mr. William J. Hennessy, Jr.
Mr. Fred B. Herrmann
Mr. Edwin Hettinger and
Ms. Beverly Diamond
Hilton Head Island Audubon Society
Mr. William L. Hiott, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Adams Hodge
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hoffius
Mr. J. W. F. Holliday
Dr. Melanie A. Hopkins
Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Horlbeck
James and Page Hungerpiller
Mr. Patrick Ilderton
Dr. Merrill P. Irvin
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Jackson, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Johnston
Ms. May Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Jules
Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Kammer
Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Keller, Jr.
Melissa and Michael Ladd
Dr. and Mrs. Wood N. Lay
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Lee
Chip and Coleman Legerton
Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Leland
Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Fulton D. Lewis
Dr. and Mrs. Lanneau D. Lide
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lortz
David Lyle and Anne Aaron-Lyle
Dr. and Mrs. Brem Mayer
Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. McCann
Mr. and Mrs. James D. McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. Dexter C. Mead
The Nelson Mead Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Meyer
Kincaid and Allison Mills
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Mirsky
Anne and Ben Moise
Mr. Marty Morganello
Mr. and Mrs. M. Lane Morrison
Mr. and Mrs. C. Lawrence Murphy
Mrs. Thomas E. Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Eric H. Nelson
Dr. and Mrs. Alan I. Nussbaum
Mr. and Ms. Robert M. Ogden III
One Cool Blow, LLC
Dr. and Mrs. J. David Osguthorpe
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman C. Owens
Ms. Kate Parks
Dr. and Mrs. B. Daniel Paysinger
Mr. Bill Pendergraft and
Ms. Jeanne Phillips
Ms. Patricia A. Pierce
Mr. Richard Rainaldi
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ransome III
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey K. Richards
Mr. and Mrs. William R. Richardson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rosengren
Mr. Richard B. Saxon
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schaller
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Scheetz, Jr.
Dickie and Mary Schweers
Sea Biscuit Café
Dr. Sally E. Self
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Shealy
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Simmons, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Simpson, Jr.
Mr. G. Dana Sinkler
Dr. Cynthia P. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Smith
Drs. Ryan and Erin Smith
Dr. and Mrs. James Stephenson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Stoothoff
Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Storen
Mrs. Margaretta Taylor
Mr. John H. Tiencken, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Timmons
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Verity
Mr. G. David Waller
Mr. and Mrs. Beekman Webb
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Webb
Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wells
Dr. Tad Whiteside
Mrs. Betty C. Wiggins
Dr. Dara H. Wilber
Ms. Walda Wildman and Mr. Mack Maguire
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop
Mr. Perry L. Wood
Dr. W. Curtis Worthington
Dr. Robert Young
Live Oak Society
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Thank You!
NEW AND RENEWING MEMBERSHIPS
August 1, 2009 – October 31, 2009
SPECIAL GIFTS
Anonymous (1)
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Chandler, Jr.
Beau and Kristen Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Matthew
Mrs. Noel C. Young
ADVOCATE ($250 - $499)
Anonymous (2)
Mr. Rhett S. Bickley
Elizabeth Calvin Bonner Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Brand II
Ms. Ruthann Burgess
Mr. R. R. M. Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Corning
Senator and Mrs. John E. Courson
Mr. and Mrs. James K. Dias
Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Drummond
Mr. William Ellison, Jr.
Ms. Michel Faliero
Mr. Danny Forsberg
Mr. and Mrs. Kinney Gause
Mr. Andrew Geer
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Gettys III
Mr. and Mrs. Steven S. Gilbert
Ben and Penn Hagood
Mr. Richard F. Hendry
Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Howe
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Hurt
Thomas D. W. Hutto
Mrs. Peggy Hendricks Jones
Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Jones
Nora Kravec and Charles Cyr
Dr. and Mrs. Markus Kruesi
Jonathan Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Jon P. Liles
Gordon and Catherine Locatis
Timothy J. Lyons, M.D.
Ms. Karen E. McCormick, Esq.
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Miller
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Murphy
Dudley and Ann Myers
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Nolan
Ms. Sis Nunnally
Roy Owen and Sue McClinton
Lydia Engelhardt, M.D. and Bill Rambo, M.D.
Mr. Frank W. Rambo
Mr. Legrand A. Rouse II
Dr. James G. Simpson
Mr. and Mrs. Huger Sinkler II
Ms. Judith C. Sterrett
Drs. Christine and C. Murry Thompson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John Trinkl
Waste Management Employees' Better
Government Fund
Mr. and Mrs. John Waters
Mr. David Whitten
Mr. and Mrs. D. Mark Wilson
CONTRIBUTOR ($100 - $249)
Anonymous (1)
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff McDowell Ball
Mrs. Mary L. Ballou
Bo and Mickey Barry
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Barton
Dr. R. Randy Basinger
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Baughman
As a Midlands legislator, I continue to look to the
Conservation League as an objective resource on
coastal and environmental issues as we strive for
sustainable coastal development.
– Representative Joan Brady (R-Richland)
Mr. Peter Baumann
Ms. Jacqueline J. Bayless
Bill and Ellen Bell
Mr. Joseph P. Bennett
Mr. Charles J. Bethea
Mr. and Mrs. Milton L. Boykin
Dr. Eloise A. Bradham
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle S. Braxton
Marilyn and Howard Brilliant
Ms. Brenda Burbage
Mr. and Mrs. Hardwick H. Burr
Ms. Barbara H. Burwell
Mr. Herbert J. Butler
Ms. Paula W. Byers
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cable, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. W.C. Carter III
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Chandler
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Chase
Mr. and Mrs. David Clark
James C. Cochrane
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cohen
Dr. and Mrs. L. Bradford Courtney
Mrs. Nadine Darby
Mr. John G. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Dodds
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Drew III
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Feldman
Mr. Roger Finlay
Mr. Michael Gardner
Mr. J. Lee Gastley
Ms. Elizabeth B. Glazebrook
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gowin
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Greenstein
Mrs. Nancy Griffiths
Jim and Kay Gross
Guerrilla Cuisine
Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hadley
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Hagy
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Harrell
Mr. John Hartz and Ms. Susan Grey
Ms. Molli M. Hartzog
Mrs. Eaddy W. Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hester
Mr. John R. Hope
Mrs. Vera C. Hyman
Mr. George Ivey
Beau and Kristen Johnson
Dr. Elizabeth G. Joiner
Mrs. Lisa Jones-Turansky
Mr. Chris Kouri
Ms. Nancy M. Kreml
Miss Gretta Kruesi
The Honorable Phil P. Leventis
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Lybecker
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mathisen
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Maybank
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McArthur
Mr. Mark McConnel and Mr. Darryl Phillips
Col. and Mrs. Thomas G. McCunniff
Ms. Eileen Mary McGuffie
Mr. and Mrs. John F. McIlwain
Dr. Phoebe A. McLeod
Capt. and Mrs. William L. Miles
George W. Miller
Mr. Warren Moise
Mr. Rick C. Montague
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Muench
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Mullin, Jr.
Malcolm and Priscilla Munson
Mr. Vance Nesmith
Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Palmer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Pennebaker
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Penniman IV
V. Adm. Douglas C. Plate
Mr. John T. Poole
Mr. Jerry Poore
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Post, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Jan H. Postma, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Pulliam
Mr. John L. Quigley, Jr.
Mrs. E.H. Rakestraw
Mr. Frank W. Rambo
Ms. Cheryl Randall
Terry and Maria Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Rivers, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Schmitt, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Shealy, Jr.
Harriet and Dick Smartt
Mr. David S. Spell
Mr. Thomas Stuckey
Ms. Jennie G. Summerall
Mrs. Tonnia K. Switzer-Smalls
Mr. Jesse H. Tate
Drs. George and Carol Tempel
Louis and Jane Theiling
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Thomas, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Dale E. Thorpe, Jr.
Mr. Jonathan D. Tillotson
Joan and Martin Ustin
Dr. and Mrs. H. Oliver Williamson
Ms. Caitlin M. Winans
Ms. Elizabeth J. Witham
Ms. Laura S. Witham
Ms. Patricia Wolman
Mrs. Amelia K. Wood
Mr. J. Givens Young
SUPPORTER ($50 - $99)
Ms. Libby Anderson and Mr. Paul Nurnberg
Billie J. Black
Ms. Margaret Bobo
Jan Brewton
Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Bridgman
Mrs. and Mr. Carley Brown
Drs. Marion L. Brown and Marilyn Mumford
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Brubaker
Mr. Joseph W. Cabaniss
Mr. Elwyn Cahaly
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Cale
Mr. and Mrs. A Crawford Clarkson, Jr.
Mr. James T. Collins
Mr. Mark Comer
Mr. and Mrs. D.M. Crutchfield
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Del Porto
Ms. June N. Derrick
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F. Doty III
Mr. Randell Ewing
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Fishburn
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Goldstein
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Grady, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Gravil
Mr. Robert Gurley
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hall
Mr. and Mrs. J. William Haltiwanger
Mrs. Dorinda Q. Harmon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hartnett
Ms. Connie Haskell
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Hehn
Mr. and Mrs. Alex G. Henderson
Ms. Marilyn M. Henderson
Col. and Mrs. Perry A. Hudel
Mrs. Derial C. Jackson
Dr. and Mrs. W. Scott James
James J. Jowers, Jr.
Mr. Kevin Kelly
Ms. Joan Kinne
Mr. Ralph C. Ksenzak
Mrs. Anna S. Lacher
Ms. Bobbie H. Lawson
Mr. James Lawton and Ms. Yvonne Leonard
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Leffel
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lehnhoff
Dr. I. Grier Linton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving M. Lustig
Mr. Frederick F. Masad
Mrs. Robert Matthew
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Maxwell
Mrs. Audrey C. McBratney
Mr. Curtis McCall, Jr.
Frances McClary
Dr. and Mrs. Kelly T. McKee
Mrs. Julie C. McLaughlin
Mrs. Dorothy L. Mosior
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Naylor
Mr. Michael Norris
Geno and Mel Olmi
Mr. and Mrs. George Owen
Mrs. Anne V. Padgett
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Pauls
Dr. and Mrs. Keith C. Player
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Reading II
Mr. Wayne Richard
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rigler
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Rosen
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Ms. Virginia Rosenberg
Dr. James D. Scurry
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Skidmore
Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Smith
Mrs. Miriam Smith
Mrs. Tonnia K. Switzer-Smalls
Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Thomas
Mrs. Barbara W. Titus
John and Kay Townsend
Ms. Sally Tuten and Mr. Y. S. Linder
Mrs. Joan Vander Arend
Dr. Luis Viamonte
Mr. Kurt Wagner
Mrs. Laurie Waldrop
Mr. and Mrs. Jason Watkins
Mr. B. L. Watson
Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Weir
Mr. Samuel C. Welsh
Mrs. Suzie H. Williams
Ms. Marian C. Winner
Mr. and Mrs. West P. Woodbridge, Jr.
REGULAR ($30 - $49)
Mr. Bennett R. Baxley
Mr. John H. Boineau
Marnette Bowen
Mr. Doran A. Bramlett
Mr. Gerrald O. Branton
Ms. Evelyn C. Caldwell
Dr. William E. Carson
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Claypool
Mrs. Richard D. Coonen
Mrs. Elaine Cooper
Mrs. Jeannette M. Cooper
Ms. Rosemary A. Corley
Dr. James R. Edinger
Mrs. Luanne H. Elliott
Dr. Frances L. Elmore
Ms. Mary Fetscher
Mrs. Jaquelin P. Fleet
Mr. D. Michael Foley
Dr. and Mrs. James Forrester
Mrs. Amie Gitter
Dr. Morris F. Gitter
Mr. Brian Grabbatin
Cmdr. Susan H. Hancock
Mrs. Jennifer Harlan
Mrs. Lisa Hartzog
Ms. Hannah B. Heyward
Mr. and Mrs. Brian R. Hill
Drs. Louis and Christine Huzella
Ms. Marsha B. Jenkins
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony P. Keinath
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Krucke
D. H. Robinson, M.D. and J. W. Lawther, Ph.D
Mr. and Mrs. Richards C. Lewis, Jr.
Ms. Patricia O. Lowry
Mrs. Letitia Galbraith Machado
Mr. Randal G. McClure
Mrs. Suzanne G. McIntyre
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Meyerson
Mr. Robert B. Miller
Laura E. Moses
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. O'Neal
Mr. William Y. W. Ripley
Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Schwenzfeier
Dr. Daniel Silver
Ms. Lillian Ann H. Smith
Mrs. Olivia J. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. William D. Smyth
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Snyder
Mrs. John M. Spence
Mr. and Mrs. Dean O. Trytten
Dr. Bruce Waldman
Mr. William P. Weber
Mr. Shemuel Ben Yisrael
STUDENT ($15 - $29)
Mr. John F. Atkinson
Jonathan and Marty Bonds
Mr. Steven Cook
Ms. Marianne C. Daleske
Ms. Carol Tanner Dotterer
Mr. and Mrs. Eric K. Engdahl
Ms. Guinn Garrett
Victoria Hanham-Gross
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Hoenck
Mr. Sean Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Leahy
Miller Marshall
Ms. Shelley McGeorge, Ph.D.
Mrs. Mary Lang G. Olson
Mr. Aaron Petty
Mrs. Katheryne Trammell
Mr. Karl A. Williams, Jr.
IN KIND DONATIONS
The Carriage House at Litchfield
Anne Rodgers Chandler
Coastal Expeditions
Ft. Moultrie
Fuzzco, Inc.
Teri Lynn Herbert
Honor Marks
The Park House in Habersham
William-Aiken House
Jesse Colin Young Band
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS
Central Carolina Community
Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Lawson
Escrow Fund
Robert W. Foster Charitable Escrow Fund
Coastal Community Foundation
Anonymous Fund
Molly Hudson Ball Fund
William M. Bird & Co. Endowment
Colbert Family Fund
Houghton Fund
Ketner Fund for Social Justice
Elizabeth C. Rivers Lewine Endowment
The Millbrook Fund
Joanne and Alan Moses Fund
Fred E. Pittman Fund
I. Mayo and Posey Read Fund
SC Green Fund
Community Foundation of Greater
Chattanooga, Inc.
Jay and Jennifer Mills Fund
Community Foundation of the
Lowcountry, Inc.
Berry and Ruthie Edwards Giving Back Fund
Martha C. Worthy Charitable Fund
The Community Foundation of Western
North Carolina
Alexander and Laurinda Schenck Fund
Foundation for the Carolinas
Fred and Alice Stanback, Jr.
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Paul and Mary Avery Charitable Fund
The New York Community Trust
The Barns Fund
The Bohemia Fund
Feldman Family Fund
Pasadena Community Foundation
Gay S. Huffman Fund
The Pittsburgh Foundation
F.E. Agnew Family Fund
MATCHING GIFTS
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts
The Williams Companies, Inc.
GIFTS OF MEMBERSHIP
Mr. J. Marshall Allen for
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Allen
Mr. Kyle S. Braxton for
Mr. Vaughn G. Braxton
HONOR/MEMORIALS
In Honor of Luca Desrosiers and
Kellen Desrosiers
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wehman, Jr.
In Honor of Jean B. Everett
Manning Council of Garden Clubs
In Memory of Mrs. Elizabeth V. Lovelace
Mrs. Helen Alexander
Virginia and Dana Beach
Adelaide Silver Crocker
Francina L. Crocker
Gary and Kelly Davis
Mr. D’Arcy C. Fasulo
Mr. Robert W. Foster, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Good
Mr. and Mrs. L. Marion Gressette III
Mrs. Arthur A. Madden
Ms. Madge G. Major
Mrs. Caroline Marchant
Mr. and Mrs. C. Whitaker Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Palmer, Jr.
Palmetto Retina Center
Dr. and Mrs. Edmund R. Taylor
Dr. and Mrs. Ambrose G. Updegraff
In Celebration of Mr. Sean McNally and
Ms. Katherine Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Bridgeforth
Mrs. Georgene Clower
Mr. and Mrs. James B. LeVan
Mr. and Mrs. Ed McCorkle
Mr. John O’Donnell
Dana Beach
Mr. Colin O’Neil
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Stevenson
In Memory of the Honorable Wyatt T.
Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. Langdon D. Long
In Memory of Mrs. Alice Anne S.
Scarborough
Mrs. Janice O. Bristow, Jr.
Ms. Julia A. Bristow
Mr. Melvin Creighton and Mrs. Karen
Thompson-Creighton
Mr. Hugh Jeffers and Ms. Anna Lee Turner
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Pritchard, Jr.
Dr. Kimberly Pugh
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Ragland
Mr. Albert B. Somers
In Memory of Ms. Kate Waring
Ms. Sandra J. Senn
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State House Calendar
Tuesday, Jan. 12th
Official start of the 2010
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.
For more information about the Coastal
Conservation League, check out our Web site
at www.CoastalConservationLeague.org
Contact the League’s Government
Relations Coordinator Merrill
McGregor at 803-771-7102
or merrillm@scccl.org for more
information about times, meeting
places, and transportation to and
from Columbia.
Celebrating
20
Years
The mission of the Coastal Conservation League is to protect the
natural environment of the South Carolina coastal plain and to enhance
the quality of life of our communities by working with individuals,
businesses and government to ensure balanced solutions.
Get Connected
Become an Activist
During the 2010 Legislative Session, you can practice
activism from the State House lobby (or from your living
room) in the following ways:
Lobby Team Tuesdays
Lobby teams are now even bigger and better in this, our fifth year
of assisting concerned citizens in engaging their legislators on
conservation issues. Come to Columbia on any Tuesday that fits your
schedule and we will guide you through a day at the State House.
You can observe a legislative session in action, speak to representatives
and senators, attend hearings and help reinforce the message of our
conservation agenda.
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
and together promote a clean and healthy South Carolina. That
evening after a day of lobbying, we enjoy an old fashioned oyster roast
and lively conversation with legislative guests and the conservation
community.
Join our Activist Network
Log on to www.CoastalConservationLeague.org and sign up
for our Activist Network. All it takes is an email address and
you’re connected. The Web site can also identify your particular
representatives, up-to-date information on specific bills and
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
“Hot List” for weekly updates on legislation and what’s happening at
the State House.
For more information, log on to
www.CoastalConservationLeague.org or call
Patrick Moore or Merrill McGregor in the
Conservation League’s legislative office at 803-771-7102.
Cover Artist: After paying his dues as a newspaper photographer for
several years, Sam Holland went out on his own to become a still
photographer for film productions and other commercial ventures. A
resident of Columbia, S.C., he has served as the official photographer
for the S.C. House of Representatives for the last decade and has
established an extensive library of images of South Carolina. To learn
more about Sam and to view his stunning portfolio, visit his Web site
at www.SamHollandPhotography.com.