What we’re about
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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Deveaux Bank: The Universe in a Grain of Sand
Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center - College of Charleston, 58 Coming St, Charleston, SC, USThursday, November 6, 2025, 7 pm
Sierra Club presents
Dana Beach, Founder of Coastal Conservation League and board member of Butler Parklands
Deveaux Bank: The Universe in a Grain of Sand
Rita Hollings Science Center Auditorium, College of Charleston
58 Coming Street, corner of George, Charleston SC 29401
Free and open to the public. Also on Zoom, please register here.Dana will discuss the ecological history and importance of this dynamic sandbar in the mouth of the North Edisto that has served as a wellspring of avian life for more than a century. His photographs, taken over 2 decades, illustrate the beauty and fragility of this imperilled rookery, and the steps that must be taken to save it for future generations of birds and people. The presentation will include the results of a new study, not yet made public, of the status and trajectory of the island, and the hope for the future of the rookery.
Dana got his start in conservation as a Sierra club volunteer in the early 80s in New York City. When he and Virginia married, they returned to Charleston and devoted much of their time and energy to learning about the environment and the political landscape of South Carolina. Dana started the Coastal Conservation League in 1989 and served as its executive director until 2018. He is currently a board member of Butler Parklands, which created and operates the Black River Cypress Preserve and 7 other parks in North and South America. Dana spends time both on the South Carolina coast and in the mountains, as a volunteer environmental advocate.7 attendees
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