2019 Fall Landowner Meetings and Education Opportunities

2019 Meeting Agenda

When September rolls around it signals a return to the woodlands and the outdoors for landowners, land managers and hunting enthusiasts. A series of meetings set for this Fall are set to continue in Colleton County, and around the state of South Carolina. The S.C. Plantation Managers Association met in Walterboro on August 8, with wildlife management the chief topic of discussion, and the New Holland tractor hay farmer workshop took place on August 24 at Snider’s Crossroads. Other meetings coming up are set to address forestry, women in the outdoors, quail habitat and prescribed fire.

The S.C. Prescribed Fire Council annual meeting to discuss the culture of habitat management using controlled burning will be on September 24 and 25 in Newberry. The first day begins at noon with a field trip into the award winning Indian Creek Focal Area where quail habitat has been in focus for a patchwork of private landowners and state owned lands. An afternoon social is planned at the Newberry Firehouse Conference Center, and Day Two of the meeting will be held at Piedmont Technical College in Newberry beginning at 9 in the morning. The agenda includes topics including shortleaf pine, fire in hardwoods and reduced admission pricing is available for private landowners.

Readers of the Colletonian recall that October 18, 2018 marked the inaugural meeting of the Lowcountry Landowner Association at Big Survey Plantation. The follow up meeting for this local group is now set for October 22, 2019 at the Walterboro Farmer’s Market. The Lowcountry Landowner Association advocates for agriculture, forestry, wildlife, conservation and landowner rights. The keynote speaker will be Mr. Cam Crawford, the Director of the South Carolina Forestry Association (SCFA) based in Columbia. The SCFA also advocates for sustainable forestry and stands up for the rights of loggers. This meeting also serves as a membership drive and any landowners from Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton and Colleton County are welcome.

To view the entire feature article in the newspaper click on Colletonian.

To view past blog entries on landowner meetings click 2018 Lowcountry Landowner Association - 2016 Kershaw County Landowners - 2011 Tri-County Forestry Association - ACE Basin - S.C. Prescribed Fire Council - Savannah River Preserve - Herbicide - Mayfield Garden Club

To view past blog entries about controlled burning click on 2015 Prescribed Fire Council Meeting - 2015 Prescribed Fire - Plowing Firebreaks - 2014 Dry Weather Fire Threat - SCDNR Prescribed Fire - 2013 Prescribed Fire - 2012 Prescribed Fire - 2009 Wildfire - 2009 Prescribed Fire Council