The Ebb and The Flow

Boone Hall Plantation, 599 acres, Charleston County Earlier this spring, when The Post and Courier kicked off a new series entitled “Boom and Balance,” they reported that the population of […]

Dear Friends, Saturday was about as beautiful a June evening as I can imagine in Charleston–sunny, breezy, and cool, with everything in bloom. My wife, daughter, and I decided at […]

  Black Creek Plantation, 864 acres, Colleton County The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. While there is an avid online debate about which ancient philosopher coined […]

Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to pick up the mantle of the President’s Log and write to you this week. Last week saw a turning point for LLT as […]

We are lucky to have a number of reptiles and amphibians that call the Lowcountry home and as it gets warmer, you have likely spotted one. Whether a green anole […]

Big Snooks, 228 acres, Jasper County The 2.8 million-acre Savannah River Basin provides drinking water for 1.5 million people in South Carolina and Georgia. As you can imagine, protecting a […]

Dear Friends, At Lowcountry Land Trust, we believe in the care and keeping of the place we call home. We believe in careful stewardship of our land, water, culture, wildlife, […]

Monday, May 25th: I spent Memorial Day with my family enjoying the freedom to explore our magnificent estuarine resources. Here is a brief clip of my children frolicking in the […]

Holly Bluff II, 449 acres, Colleton County Landscape conservation is a long game. Take the ACE Basin–1.7M acres of upland and wetland habitat bound by the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto […]

Resolution Honoring Elizabeth McRae Petersen & William Harris McRae WHEN Elizabeth and Willie McRae moved to Boone Hall in the 1950s, they were little children. Their father purchased the plantation […]

Dear Friends, As summer is starting soon, and I am beginning to see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, I started reading a book today. Not a […]