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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Conservation at Black River Cypress Preserve
Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center - College of Charleston, 58 Coming St, Charleston, SC, USThursday, October 1, 7 pm (Doors open at 6:45 for socializing)
Sierra Club presents: Conservation at Black River Cypress Preserve
Sarah Wilson, Visitation and Education Manager
College of Charleston Rita Hollings Science Center Auditorium, 58 Coming Street (corner of George)
Free and open to the public. Also on Zoom, stay tuned for link.The Black River rises in the swamps and bogs of Sumter and Lee counties and flows through Clarendon and Williamsburg counties until it reaches the Great Pee Dee River in Georgetown County. The privately owned Black River Cypress Preserve was created to inspire, activate, and educate citizens about the extraordinary blackwater swamps and native pinelands of the South Carolina coastal plain. Founded in 2015, the Preserve features fifteen miles of interpretive walking and biking trails. In addition to a 3.2-mile kayak route down the main stem of the river, there are seven miles of paddling trails within the cypress swamp, on the Swampside Tract and across the river on property owned by The Nature Conservancy.
Sarah Wilson is a retired educator who loves her part-time retirement job. She enjoys educating others about the connections of the natural world and the role humans play in taking care of mother Earth.
Sierra Club mission statement: To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth
https://www.cypresspreserve.org/
https://www.sierraclub.org/south-carolina/robert-lunz5 attendees
Past events
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