CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The Nature Conservancy and the Sewee Long Leaf Cooperative are working to educate people by showing how safe, prescribed fires help our state’s forests and the Lowcountry.
March is Prescribed Fire Awareness Month, which Gov. Henry McMaster proclaimed on March 1. The Nature Conservancy has hosted Fire Fest since 2015, and its goal is to promote awareness for forestry growth and regeneration by conducting these fires in areas like Mount Pleasant or the Francis Marion National Forest.
“We get a lot of wildfires in South Carolina, all across the state, right around 5,000 to 6,000 a year. Not all fires are wildfires, there’s a lot of beneficial prescribed fire that goes in the state,” said Patrick Ma, Nature Conservancy Conservation forester…