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** Archived Article - please check for current information. **

April 16, 2009

Natural Resources Board meets April 23 in Columbia

The S.C. Natural Resources Board, the policy making body of the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, will meet 10 a.m. Thursday, April 23 at the Rembert C. Dennis Building located at 1000 Assembly St. in Columbia. The meeting will be held in Room 335 (board room).

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
              Marine Resources
              Migratory Waterfowl
              Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
              Land, Water and Conservation
  
  Items for board information
              Drought update
              Turkey season issues
              Sunday opening and closing dates for various seasons
              Announcement of natural resources economic survey results
              Office of State Audit report on federal spending review
  
  
• Items for board action
              Proposed donation to Ducks Unlimited from Migratory Waterfowl Advisory Committee
              Emergency regulations for DNR-owned lands
              Request for easements by the City of Bennettsville at Lake Paul Wallace
              Savannah River Bluffs Heritage Preserve Management Plan
              Revisions to leave policy
              Berkeley Electric Cooperative easement on Bonneau Ferry
  
  
• Director's briefings
              Executive office
              Legislative report
              Environmental report
                          --South Island Ferry
                          --Santee Cooper Pee Dee Station
  
  
• Deputy directors' reports
              Marine Resources
              Land, Water and Conservation
              Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
              Law Enforcement’
              Outreach and Support Services
  
  
• Comments

DNR protects and manages South Carolina’s natural resources by making wise and balanced decisions for the benefit of the state’s natural resources and its people.

• 27 SC counties now have no drought status
• Natural Resources Board meets April 23 in Columbia
• Outbreak of salmonella killing Southern songbirds
• Aiken County wildlife area open during Saturdays in May
• Private tree service company works to save new state champion Red Bay tree
• Brushy ditch banks, weedy field borders are beneficial to wildlife around farms
• Avoid bird, window collisions with these simple tips from DNR
  
• Hog hunting permitted in daylight hours only
  
• Florence attorney wins 2008 Environmental Awareness Award
• Southeast Quail Study Group becomes National Bobwhite Technical Committee
• Public asked to report sightings of state-endangered swallow-tailed kite
  
• Benefits of prescribed burning are many, but challenges abound
  
• Freshwater Fishing Trends
• Saltwater Fishing Trends
• S.C. Weekly Tidetable