by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
Why save land from development? That’s a question people have been asking for years, haven’t they? Growing up in Atlanta, I saw the results of unmanaged growth, and those experiences shaped my view of the Lowcountry when I moved here some 30 years ago....
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
The Ashley River, just upstream from Bacon’s Bridge. Rosebrock Park is on the left. Connecting two parks on diagonally opposite sides of a river? Simple, right? Just build a bridge. But the river is scenic. The four-lane road is busy with traffic, and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Note the gas pumps and amount of impervious surface in the images above. The top right photo is a new Parker’s Kitchen in Monck’s Corner, SC. It’s just not one year we are concerned about, but decades of effects. Isn’t a convenience store...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Charleston Post and Courier – front page story By Jerrel Floyd, Nov 11, 2021 George McDaniel, chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, has worked to raise awareness around protecting the Ashley River. He questions why the area needs a gas station...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
As chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, which owns Rosebrock Park as a nature-based park leased to the county, we are charged with protecting it and its nearby resources. Its health is now threatened by an in-and-out gas station directly across the road...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2021 | Blog, Books, Community Engagement, Conservation, Drayton Hall Stories, Family, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Publication
First on Facebook – February 5, 2021 Click on the blue Facebook logo in the upper right corner above to read all the comments and enlarge the photos, or read the transcript below: “A Clubhouse and a Golf Course or Two”? It could...
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