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#06-184 July 17, 2006

Natural Resources Board meets July 21 in Charleston

The S.C. Natural Resources Board, the policy-making body of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, will meet 11 a.m. Friday, July 21 in the auditorium of Marine Resources Division at 217 Ft. Johnson Road, Charleston, SC.

Board meetings are open to the public and anyone with business for the board or needing directions to the meeting should contact the S.C. Department of Natural Resources Columbia office at (803) 734-9102. Michael G. McShane of Johns Island is chairman of the S.C. Natural Resources Board.
Items scheduled on the agenda for the S.C. Natural Resources Board meeting include:

• Constituent comments
  
  
• Presentations/commendations
  
  
• Advisory committee reports
  Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries          
  Governor’s Cup Billfishing Series  
  Law Enforcement
  
  
• Items for board action
  Early migratory bird season selections        
  Bond execution authorization    
  Marsh Tract/proposed SCDOT purchase/Highway 378
  Bridge Replacement Project
  
  
• Director’s briefings
  Executive office
  Legislative report
  
  
• Deputy Directors’ Reports: Outreach and Support Services; Marine Resources; Land, Water and Conservation; Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries; Law Enforcement
  
  
• Board members’ comments

• Natural Resources Board meets July 21 in Charleston
• New Broad River fish passage facility dedicated in Columbia
• Upstate youth dove hunt applications due by Aug. 18
• Applications now being accepted for Anderson County dove hunt
• Nesting chimney swifts are source of noise now heard in fireplaces
• Hampton marine conservation banquet set for Aug. 12
• S.C. Conservation Bank commits $9 million for habitat protection
• Alligator warning signs now available
• Hunting, fishing licenses are up for renewal in S.C.
• Beach vitex may threaten sea turtle hatchlings
• Youth deer hunts to be held this fall by Santee Cooper, DNR
• DNR replanting oyster reefs
• Biologist says people can learn to co-exist with black bears
• ‘Mary Agnes’ wins Bohicket tournament in Governor’s Cup Series
• Statewide deer harvest stable in 2005
• Quail Unlimited Midlands funds habitat at Manchester State Forest
• S.C. Wildlife Federation will celebrate 75th anniversary
• Freshwater Fishing Trends
• Saltwater Fishing Trends
• S.C. Weekly Tidetable