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Aug '1510
by Colin   Posted In : NoRecent

The Conservancy’s “Cloud”

                    “Bringing light to Johns Island issues.” Documents   Buckland Plantation Planned Development Planning Commission Presentation 8/10/2015 Plan Application 8/10/2015 (large file 5MB)
Mar '1414
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Back to the Future

Focusing on development alone is a defensive approach. By itself government regulation will not preserve what is best about Johns Island. A proactive, more positive approach is also needed. Mission Possible: Grow the good, work together The Johns Island Conservancy’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1412
by Colin   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Opportunities

  “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.” Mark Twain The wealth of natural, cultural and historic capital on Johns Island provides numerous opportunities to improve the quality of life for those […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1412
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Interview with Thomas Legare

The Legare family began planting on Johns Island in 1725, and its ancestors began working the same 300-acres of farmland the current generation calls home way back in the 1830s. But times change, and to survive, even the most traditional […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1411
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Interview with Murray Neale

A Johns Islander by choice, Murray Neale grew up in a military family that stayed on the move. She and her husband originally lived and worked in New York City, but by 1996 both were ready for a change, and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1411
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Interview with Sidi Limehouse

There was a moment in the winter of 1960 when freshly minted Clemson ag-school graduate Sidi Limehouse looked into taking a job outside of South Carolina. He had interviews at factories in the Upper Midwest, and they went well enough. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1411
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Interview with Bill Saunders

As an 18-year-old combat veteran just home from Korea in the early 1950s, Bill Saunders returned to a hostile Jim Crow South and the harsh realization that he’d been wounded fighting for someone else’s freedom while the men and women […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mar '1410
by Dan Conover   Posted In : Conservation Action, Education, Farms, History, Land Use, NoRecent

Growing a New Johns Island
Conserve & Grow

Conserve: Protect something, especially of environmental or cultural importance, from harm or destruction. Prevent the wasteful overuse of a resource. Oxford Dictionary Our natural landscape: Forest, marsh and water John’s Island has long been overlooked by outsiders as a rural […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…