Keep South Carolina Wild
February 23, 2023
To continue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, meet our next species of the month, the frosted flatwoods salamander. This species was listed as threatened in 1999 under the Endangered Species Act. They are endemic to the historically fire-adapted longleaf pine ecosystem and require open canopy pine savannas with wiregrass. In 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated 22,970 acres of protected critical habitat for the frosted flatwoods salamander.
Conservation Lobby Day was a huge success last week, and SCWF staff were proud to be joined by several high school students and their parents at the State House. The...
The South Carolina Wildlife Federation is honored to be in a position to distribute educational grants to full-time students pursuing environmental education at South Carolina schools of higher education. Both...
[caption id="attachment_5431" align="alignright" width="300"] Black bear by Ann Timberlake.[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to pass the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, a bill to prevent...