THE PEE DEE PROGRESS PAGE 4

The Pee Dee Progress

Published Quarterly by the Pee Dee

Resource Conservation and Development 

Southeastern Association of RC&D Councils Convened in SC 

Serving the Counties of

Area Council, Incorporated. A Private 

The South Carolina RC&D Council hosted the Southeastern Association Conference at the Wyndham 

Chesterfield  Darlington  Dillon   

501 (C) 3 Nonprofit Organization

Marion  Marlboro

Resort in Myrtle Beach, October 9 12, 2002. The Pee Dee RC&D had seven representatives in attendance. 

Website    www.peedee.org 

300 Russell Street, Room 209

Attendees from 10 southeastern states learned of the various projects being implemented across the 

Email       rcd@peedee.org

Darlington, South Carolina 29532 

Southeast. Tours were conducted at the Horry County Solid Waste Authority, Grand Strand Sewer and 

 (843) 

393 9809

Water, and a Power For Wildlife site representing the SC Statewide Power for Wildlife program in which 

private landowners are compensated for maintaining utility right of ways. 

December 2002

Winter Edition

                                                                Volume 3  Issue 2

The Pee Dee RC&D is grateful to the local Conservation Partnership; including the NRCS Field Staff, the 

Soil and Water Conservation District Commissioners and Staff, SC Department of Natural Resources Field 

Pee Dee Land Trust Hosts a Landowner Meeting 

In This Issue 

Staff, and Citizen Volunteers. Without the support and efforts of the Partnership, many of these projects which 

we coordinate would not exist.

in Darlington with the American Farmland Trust

Pee Dee Land Trust  hosts a 

Pee Dee Resource Conservation and Development Area Council, Incorporated 

landowner meeting on 

Farmland Protection.  Page 1.

                   Chesterfield           Darlington              Dillon 

  Marion 

      Marlboro 

Staff 

Pee Dee Watershed Plan 

Cecil Kimrey 

Joyce 

Bill Aston

Jasper Eaddy, 

Bunyon Anderson, 

David Arthur, 

Implementation Project is 

Franklin, 

Chairman 

Vice Chairman 

RC&D Coordinator 

Approved by Governor 

Cherry McCoy 

Treasurer 

Johnnie 

Hodges.  Page 1. 

Luehrs

Andrew Eaddy 

Anna Hubbard 

Sharon DeWitt, 

Larry Stegner 

Mike Smith 

Administrative 

Arbor Day  Program at St. 

Kent Williams

Marion Wright, Jr.

Assistant

Roosevelt 

Hartsell 

Johns Elementary School 

Wallace

Rogers, Jr.

Nature Center Project in 

All programs and services of the Pee Dee Resource Conservation and Development Area Council  are offered on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard 

Darlington      Page 2. 

to race, color national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status or handicap.                     

Pee Dee Regional Urban and 

Community Forestry Project 

is underway.  Page 3. 

Ben Zeigler,  Pee Dee Land Trust Board Member, (standing) and Myra Lemburg, 

American Farmland Trust,  (lower center), provided farm land protection easement 

Thompson Creek Water 

information to approximately 25 Pee Dee Area landowners at Oaklyn Plantation. 

Quality Project Nears 

Completion in Chesterfield. 

Ann Williamson, Pee Dee Land Trust Board Member, and her husband Ben 

Page 3. 

Williamson provided their home at Oaklyn Plantation as the venue for a Pee Dee Land 

Pee Dee Cultural Heritage 

Trust Landowner Meeting on Wednesday evening December 4th.  Information on 

Project Puts Historical 

conservation easements and the easement donation process/benefits was presented to 

Marker Information on the 

area landowners. Describing the role of the Pee Dee Land Trust, Ben Zeigler stated, 

Internet.  Page 3. 

 The Pee Dee Land Trust is about community based conservation. It is about 

communities and the people within them coming together to work for responsible and 

Interactive County Road 

Maps with new road names 

sustainable land use. It is about helping the people of this region to recognize the value 

are developed by the Pee Dee 

of our undeveloped land as a resource, something that is essential to a decent quality 

RC&D.   Page 3. 

of life, and to understand that how we treat the land, in many ways defines who we 

are. The Pee Dee Land Trust operates on the premise that the land is a community to 

Pee Dee Council Members 

which we all belong.  

attend the Southeastern 

RC&D Conference in Myrtle 

Beach. Page 4. 

For Information concerning the tax benefits of donating land or conservation 

easements, and the many options available to the donor, visit 

Current Efforts  Page 2.   

http://peedeelandtrust.tripod.com

  or call (843) 393 9809 ext. 4. 

Pee Dee RC&D Watershed Proposal Submitted to EPA by Governor  

The Pee Dee Resource Conservation and Development Council (Pee Dee RC&D) is dedicated to the protection 

and enhancement of water quality and watershed health in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina. We recently 

submitted a Watershed Initiative Project proposal for the Pee Dee Watershed of South Carolina in response to the 

call for nominations for the Watershed Initiative [FRL 7262 8] sponsored by the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). Our proposal was selected by Governor Hodges as one of two which SC is allowed to submit to 

EPA for regional and national consideration.