The Post and Courier reported today that Norfolk Southern, a shipping and transportation company headquartered in Norfolk, VA, has donated 12,488 acres of the Brosnan Forest near Dorchester, SC to the Lowcountry Open Land Trust in a conservation easement, which will forever protect the land from development.  It’s the largest single donation of land in the LOLT’s history, and probably in South Carolina’s too - to give you some idea of just how significant this is, 12,488 acres is bigger than the Charleston Peninsula. 

Photo from the Lowcountry Open Land Trust website

A long-leaf pine forest and habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, the Brosnan Forest is ecologically highly significant; so, not only does this transaction protect open land, which is a victory in itself, but it also will help preserve plant and animal species that need all the help they can get. 

Filed under: Charleston SC Green Living, I'On Group, Mixson on August 5th, 2008