Category Archives: Kiawah Spit

Lowcountry in focus: the Kiawah Spit

By Celie Dailey | Published: July 30, 2014
The Coastal Conservation League, in association with GrowFood Carolina, reported on the status of Captain Sams Spit, Kiawah Island, in their recent newsletter, Lowcountry in focus: Captain Sams Spit is a 150-acre teardrop-shaped landform on the south end of Kiawah Island. (A spit is a narrow coastal land formation that is tied to the coast […]
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Our Common Thread: Environmental Awareness

By Mary Edna | Published: June 3, 2014
Mary Edna Fraser’s silk batiks of aerial, underwater, and outer space imagery present a colorful and unique sense of place with a common thread of environmental awareness. The lecture will show how Fraser uses her iconic images in collaboration with scientists, including planetary geologist Ted Maxwell of the Smithsonian, coastal geologist Orrin H. Pilkey of […]
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A letter from Dana Beach regarding Captain Sam’s Spit and other South Carolina environmental issues

By Celie Dailey | Published: October 8, 2013
Folks, Here are four excellent articles from the Post and Courier and the State. The first, [Capt. Sam’s Spit development could imperil little-regarded marsh turtle on Kiawah Island] by the Post and Courier’s Bo Petersen, reports that the development of Capt. Sams’ Spit by the Kiawah developers could destroy a population of diamond-back terrapins, the […]
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