A conservation group that preserves wild land in coastal South Carolina has secured protection of 84 acres on Wadmalaw Island, a lush area of farms, forests and swamps near rapidly developing Charleston.
The Lowcountry Land Trust struck a deal with the owners of H&H Farm to ensure their land will not be developed, the trust said in a news release. The property, being saved through a conservation easement, contains a corridor of oaks, an open pond, farm fields, woodlands and habitat for rare sandhill cranes, the land trust release said.
Conservation easements typically allow landowners to keep their property if they agree not to develop it. In this case, the property owners donated the easement, the land trust said…