About us
This group is Sierra Club outreach to the community. Our mission is "To explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth". We get you out there. We hike. We bike. We canoe. We kayak. AND We lobby. For our outings, we suggest that participants donate $5/person. This is a voluntary contribution not a requirement for participation. The funds go to the general treasury of the Robert Lunz Group, not to the Trip Leader. Contributions are for the outings and not Membership Meetings.You can sign up for our monthly electronic newsletter on the group website at https://www.sierraclub.org/south-carolina/robert-lunz
Land Acknowledgement
We want to acknowledge that we, the Robert Lunz Group of the Sierra Club (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton and Dorchester Counties), work and live on lands once belonging to more than a dozen distinct groups of Native Americans whose existence is now evident in the familiar place names including: Ashepoo, Awendaw/Sewee, Bohicket, Catawba, Combahee, Coosa, Edisto, Etiwan, Kiawah, PeeDee, Shem (named by Sewee Tribe), Stono, Wando, Wappoo, Wassamasaw and Winyah. Disease, warfare and displacement led to the extinction of most of these groups by the middle of the eighteenth century. Shell mound evidence indicates that Native Americans were present in the lowcountry as long as 4,000 years ago. Their presence has continued to the present day including the Catawba, PeeDee, Wassamasaw, Edisto and Winyah tribes. The Wassamasaw have applied for Federal recognition. The Catawba Nation is the only Federally recognized tribe in South Carolina. A Native American Ceremonial Center is located in the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Park.
Sources
https://native-land.ca/.
https://www.sciway.net/hist/indians/geo.html
https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/first-people-south-carolina-lowcountry
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Upcoming events
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A Look Inside SCDNR’s Environmental Research Section
Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center - College of Charleston, 58 Coming St, Charleston, SC, USThursday, March 5, 7 pm (Doors open at 6:45 for socializing)
A Look Inside SCDNR’s Environmental Research Section
Norm Shea, Wildlife Biologist, SCDNR Marine Resources Research Institute
College of Charleston Rita Hollings Science Center, 58 Coming Street (corner of George)
Free and open to the public. Also on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FYORukl9SMqRr6MccgXd7ASC Department of Natural Resources Environmental Research Section is part of the Marine Resource Division and monitors South Carolina’s marsh and coastal waters through programs and research projects. Norm Shea is a biologist with SCDNR and his presentation will provide an overview of the group’s activities, providing insights into how the Section evaluates the health of these coastal resources.
Sierra Club mission statement:
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth;
To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources;
To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives.5 attendees
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