On a cool morning in March, I joined fellow Master Naturalist, Edsel Taylor, at his bottomland forest property in Ridgeville, adjacent to Four Holes Swamp. For almost two decades, he’s nurtured the local Wood Duck population by maintaining his blackwater property in its natural state and providing nest boxes for these colorful waterfowl. Not only does …
I want to recommend a fantastic Nature video from 2020 that is worth re-watching if you’ve already seen it. I recently re-visited the viral video from last May featuring a Squirrel Obstacle Course built by YouTuber, Mark Rober. He’s a former NASA and Apple engineer, who innocently settled into quarantine with the intention of finding …
Make a difference by contributing to the study of local environmental issues like plastic pollution, sea level rise, or nuisance flooding. The SC Aquarium Citizen Science app (found in the Apple App Store or on Google Play) features a collection of tools that allow you to contribute to projects of your choice quickly and easily …
A Coastal Master Naturalist member, Bill Reehl, recently submitted a story for us! While hiking the Whitewater Falls trail above Lake Jocassee, I noticed several plants that I was not familiar with. Traversing a sloping trail, I walked through a dense thicket of narrow trunked trees 8’-12’ tall with reddish brown bark and bay-like glabrous …
The cool December morning bites. The low tide wanes. Herons and egrets fly overhead. There’s a ruckus in the creek. I rush down to see two large bottlenose dolphins circling in the shallow waters, creating a bow wake as they move. All of a sudden there is an explosion of fish on the mud bank …
