
WE WRAPPED UP THE YEAR
WITH A BANG!
Oyster Roast/Annual Meeting
a Big Success Bill
Varn, President
of
Enterprise Bank, and Matthew Kizer,
President of Edisto Realty MUST have
connections
with the weatherman
because it seems that as long
as they
continue to sponsor EIOLT’s annual meeting
and oyster roast, we
can count on great
weather.
On November
15, a large crowd enjoyed great
Lowcountry cuisine, live music by “Edisto Gumbo,”
and the hospitality of
hosts, Anne and Lex Crawford, owners of Sand Creek Farm. In her address to members, Marian Brailsford
thanked the Crawfords for placing their scenic waterfront farm under conservation easement. |
ACE Basin
20th Anniversary Celebration

More than 300 easement donors and honored guests gathered at Willtown Bluff Plantation on November 22 to celebrate the monumental success of the ACE Basin Project. Charles Lane, Chair of the ACE Basin Task Force, said that in 1989 the project’s founders set a 20-year goal to preserve 90,000 acres in the ACE Basin. Instead, he said, this coalition of private landowners, land trusts, and state and federal conservation agencies have preserved almost 200,000 acres – more than twice the goal in that time! This “conservation on a grand scale” Lane attributed to the passion of the landowners. The keynote speaker at the celebration, Matthew Connelley, retired Executive Vice President of Ducks Unlimited, said that the ACE Basin Task Force is a wonderful model for what other parts of America can do to preserve the lands they love.
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