Detailed description

The improved forest management project at the Audubon Francis Beidler Forest in South Carolina provides a home for hundreds of species of wildlife and protects some of the oldest trees on the East Coast (some are over 1,000 years old!) Located in Four Holes Swamp, a blackwater creek system in South Carolina, the project area is dominated by native hardwood species (bald cypress, black gum, red maple, sweet gum, water oak) and some native softwoods (loblolly, spruce, longleaf pine). While the streams are certainly not for swimming, 60 species of fish who reside in the Atlantic Ocean as adults, started life in these streams, as they feed into other streams and rivers that merge with the Atlantic Ocean. Without this project, the area would most certainly still be harvested for timber, with practices clear cutting 100% of the trees common in this area. Now, the over 5,000 acres is available to the local community to explore and preserved for the hundreds of species of amphibians, birds, mammals and nvertebrates that call it home.