Our partners at the Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative will be hosting a Longleaf Restoration Landowner Meeting Wednesday, March 26th. The meeting will be held at the Sewee Visitor and Environmental Education Center located at 5821 Highway 17 North, Awendaw, SC 29429. There is no fee for the meeting and lunch will be provided.
Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative Longleaf Restoration Landowner Meeting
March 26, 2014
8:30 am – Noon (lunch will be provided)
Sewee Visitor & Environmental Education Center
5821 Highway 17 North Awendaw, SC 29429
The SLCC is a cooperative group promoting communication and support for longleaf restoration and management in the Sewee landscape of Berkeley, Lower Georgetown, and Charleston Counties within and surrounding the Francis Marion National Forest.
In order to get an accurate lunch count, please RSVP to Steve Moore at steve@scwf.org
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 Refreshments and Registration
9:00 – 9:15 Current SLCC projects and initiatives – Colette Degarady, TNC
9:15 – 9:30 Rural Resource Coalition news – Sara Hummel-Rajca, SCWF
9:30 – 10:00 Economics of planting LLP – Rhett Johnson, Longleaf Alliance
10:00– 10:45 LLP planting techniques – Dan Scheffing, Sabine and Waters
10:45 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Maintaining Longleaf through prescribed fire – Tom Dooley, TNC
11:30 – 12:00 SLCC Longleaf Pine Cost Share Program – Steve Moore, SCWF
12:00 Lunch and networking
1:00 Optional Field Trip for a demonstration of planting techniques (we will carpool to a nearby site)
Contact Steve Moore with questions at steve@scwf.org or (843) 559-1999.
