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Santee Birding and Nature Festival dates announced
April 23rd – April 25th, 2010
Summerton, S.C……. The dates are set and programs are scheduled for the 3rd annual Santee Birding and Nature Festival. On April 23rd – 25th, 2010, people will gather in a celebration of wildlife and the wildness that South Carolina has to offer. The mission of the Santee Birding and Nature Festival is to increase awareness of our national and state heritage in natural areas and provide wildlife watching opportunities in midland South Carolina. The committee is choosing to do this in a very special way this year; by offering the majority of festival events free to participants! Registration for all festival programs is still required, so sign up early!
This year, the committee is exploring the “nature” aspect of the birding and nature festival. Wetland Plant ID, Butterflies, Pine Needle Basket Weaving, Nature Illustration, and a Spring Wildflowers trip are just a few of the new programs on the schedule. We are also very excited to announce Rudy Mancke will be the keynote speaker at the Friday evening banquet at the Holiday Inn Santee.
The Santee Cultural Arts Building, located on Bass Drive at the Town Hall Complex, will be the center of festival events again this year. Conservation exhibitors will be featured as well as a registration table where participants can pick up their registration packets as well as sign up for field trips. All field trips will meet at the Cultural Arts Building unless otherwise indicated.
Many different conservation and tourism groups in South Carolina, including the National Audubon Society, National Park Service, Santee Cooper Country, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina State Parks, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Friends of Santee National Wildlife Refuge, and Tri-County Regional Chamber of Commerce make up the festival steering committee. Festival business sponsors include; Santee Cooper Electric Cooperative, Santee Cooper Country, Orangeburg County, Bank of Clarendon, The Beach Company, Holiday Inn-Santee, and the Town of Santee.
For more information about the Santee Birding and Nature Festival and for registration information, visit www.fws.gov/santee and click on the link for the festival. You may also call the Santee National Wildlife Refuge office at 803-478-2217 or email susan_heisey@fws.gov.
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NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA AGREE TO JOCASSEE GORGES ACCESS SOLUTION Agencies in North Carolina and South Carolina have agreed on a solution to the problem of accessing the Jim Timmerman Natural Resources Area at Jocassee Gorges through North Carolina. The Jocassee Gorges was purchased by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in 1998, and certain sections can only be legally accessed over roads in North Carolina. The South Carolina DNR secured an easement across certain roads to ensure public access in 1998. In 1999, the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources bought the property that supports those roads and established Gorges State Park. South Carolina DNR and the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources have differed in opinion as to how the easement roads will be managed and used by the public. Access to Crossroads Mountain for the fall and winter of 2008 will be on the old Auger Hole Road, which starts on Frozen Creek Road, at the North Carolina Gorges State Park’s Frozen Creek access point in Transylvania County, N.C., near the town of Rosman. The Auger Hole gate and road will remain open until Gorges State Park completes construction activities at its main entrance, near Sapphire on NC Highway 281. Once construction is complete at the Sapphire location, permanent access will then be provided from the point on NC Highway 281, through Gorges State Park and down Grassy Ridge Road. Interested visitors may contact South Carolina DNR’s Mark Hall at (864) 878-9071 or North Carolina’s Gorges State Park at (828) 966-9099. |
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