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Name (by alphabetical order) Location (of main entrance) Harbison State Forest: Columbia: Manchester State Forest: Wedgefield: Poe Creek State Forest: Pickens County: Sand Hills State Forest: Chesterfield County: Wee Tee State Forest: Georgetown County
The State of South Carolina has a group of protected areas managed by the South Carolina State Park Service (often abbreviated to SCPRT or Park Service).Formed in 1933 in conjunction with the formalization of the federal Civilian Conservation Corps program, the State Park Service is administered by the state's Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism (SCPRT).
The Francis Marion National Forest is located north of Charleston, South Carolina. It is named for revolutionary war hero Francis Marion, who was known to the British as the Swamp Fox. It lies entirely within the Middle Atlantic coastal forests ecoregion. [3] The park is also entirely in the Subtropical coniferous forest.
The region includes significant salt marshes and other coastal waterways, making it an important source of biodiversity in South Carolina. Once known for its slave-based agricultural wealth in rice and indigo , crops that flourished in the hot subtropical climate, the Lowcountry today is known for its historic cities and communities, natural ...
The Big Bend Coastal Marsh is an extremely narrow but long region, following the Gulf coast beginning near the mouth of the Ochlockonee River (near 29° 45' N, 85° W), until just north of Tampa Bay (near 28° 14' N, 82° 45' W), a distance of approximately 280 miles (450 km), but typically penetrating only 0.5 to 1.5 miles (0.80 to 2.41 km ...
Middle Atlantic coastal forests: Georgia: Nearctic: Temperate coniferous forests: Middle Atlantic coastal forests: Maryland: Nearctic: Temperate coniferous forests: Middle Atlantic coastal forests: North Carolina: Nearctic: Temperate coniferous forests: Middle Atlantic coastal forests: South Carolina: Nearctic: Temperate coniferous forests ...
The related east Gulf coastal plain northern mesic hardwood slope forest occurs to the north and has more deciduous trees. [14] On the inland east Gulf coastal plain, mesic slope forest consists of deciduous hardwood forests found in slopes and ravines. They inhabit mesic sites between drier uplands and moister streams.
Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve is named for one of many Carolina Bays. [2] Recent work by the U.S. Geological Survey has interpreted the Carolina Bays as relict thermokarst lakes that formed several thousands of years ago when the climate was colder, drier, and windier. [4]