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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 South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is a South Carolina state agency charged with regulating hunting, [1] fishing, [2] [3] boating, duck stamp orders, and the conservation efforts [4] of the state government. It is directed by seven-member Board of Directors.
The park was established due to Columbia's Sesquicentennial Celebration in 1936. The Sesquicentennial Commission used surplus funds to purchase 1,445 acres of land in 1937. This land was transferred to the Commission of Forestry, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Company #4469 was assigned to develop the park. [2]
This is a list of South Carolina heritage preserves managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. [1]Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve/Wildlife Management Area
National parks' and monuments' services will be closed to the public, ... In the 2018-2019 shutdown, the White House furloughed more than half of the staff in the Executive Office of the President.
Congaree National Park is a 26,692.6-acre (41.7 sq mi; 108.0 km 2) national park of the United States in central South Carolina, 18 miles southeast of the state capital, Columbia. The park preserves the largest tract of old growth bottomland hardwood forest left in the United States.
It is part of the ACE Basin estuarine reserve area and is managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). The area is open to the public from early February to late October and is a popular spot for hiking, biking, birding, fishing, and hunting. A wide variety of waterfowl species inhabit the area.
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