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Lunz Logo Black and white imageThursday, April 3, 7 pm

Sierra Club presents: The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative 

Lora Clarke, US Conservation, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Rita Hollings Science Center Auditorium, College of Charleston

58 Coming Street, corner of George, Charleston SC  29401

Also on Zoom, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZZ9U1GsoQmCZPmogLNJ3dQ

The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative:  Marshing Forward a Regional Approach to Protection, Restoration, and Conservation of a Vital Ecosystem

Lora Clarke, US Conservation, The Pew Charitable Trusts

The South Atlantic coast from North Carolina to east-central Florida harbors approximately 1 million acres of salt marshes that benefit fish, wildlife, communities, the economy and national defense. Sustaining this valuable resource in the face of persistent threats will require a concerted effort by all who depend on it.  Salt marshes are wetlands that fill and drain with the tides.  They protect shorelines, coastal communities, and military installations from extreme storm events and mitigate impacts such as flooding, runoff and excess nutrients that can degrade water quality. They also serve as vital habitat for many of our nation’s fish and wildlife, including those that support coastal industries and state economies.  Photo by A. Johnson/Cornell Lab of Ornithology

a view of birds in a marsh

 

APRIL DATE TO BE DECIDED - STAY TUNED  Public Forum: City of Charleston Water Plan

Rita Hollings Science Center Auditorium, College of Charleston

58 Coming Street, corner of George, Charleston SC  29401

Also on Zoom particulars pending

Join the Sierra Club, Groundswell, City of Charleston, Carolina Ocean Alliance, Charleston Climate Coalition, Charleston Waterkeeper, The Citadel, Coastal Conservation League, Historic Charleston Foundation, Marsh Project, Preservation Society, SC Aquarium, SC Environmental Law Project and Southern Environmental Law Center for a discussion of the City of Charleston's Comprehensive Integrated Water Plan, a foundational city-wide strategy for managing flood risks and embracing water’s place in the city’s future.  Free and open to the public.

Sierra Club motto: Explore, enjoy and protect the planet. 

Land Acknowledgement

We want to acknowledge that we, the Robert Lunz Group of the Sierra Club (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties), work and live on lands once belonging to more than a dozen distinct groups of Native Americans whose existence is now evident in the familiar place names  including: Ashepoo, Awendaw/Sewee, Bohicket, Catawba, Combahee, Coosa, Edisto, Etiwan, Kiawah, PeeDee, Shem (named by Sewee Tribe), Stono, Wando, Wappoo, Wassamasaw and Winyah. Disease, warfare and displacement led to the extinction of most of these groups by the middle of the eighteenth century. Shell mound evidence indicates that Native Americans were present in the lowcountry as long as 4,000 years ago. Their presence has continued to the present day including the Catawba, PeeDee, Wassamasaw, Edisto and Winyah tribes. The Wassamasaw have applied for Federal recognition.  The Catawba Nation is the only Federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. A Native American Ceremonial Center is located in the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Park.

Sources

 https://native-land.ca/.

https://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/geo.html

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/first-people-south-carolina-lowcountry

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