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On Saturday, September 30, an estimated 2,000 youth and adults attended the annual National Hunting & Fishing Day event at Oconee County’s South Cove County Park near Seneca. This free event offers many hands-on opportunities to learn the basics of outdoor skills like fishing, archery, and shooting with an air-rifle.
SCWF was honored to be featured in the National Wildlife Magazine’s recent article about our Project Prothonotary!
A BRIGHT SPLASH OF COLOR amidst the muted tones of a flooded forest, the prothonotary warbler is nicknamed “swamp canary” for its vivid golden feathers and the male’s lyrical springtime song. “That sweet, sweet, sweet song is a sound that says you’re in a Carolina swamp,” says Jay Keck, a habitat manager for National Wildlife Federation affiliate South Carolina Wildlife Federation (SCWF).
Growing up in an outdoor household on a farm in Ravenel, SC, I made my playground the venturous Lowcountry marshes and maritime forests. I thought that going out to explore the woods, shoot bottles with a BB gun, and hunt and fish was what every early 2000’s kid did, or at least had the opportunity to do. It wasn’t until I got older, that while I had the time of my life learning about the outdoors, little did I know that I was one of the lucky ones that didn’t grow up concealed from nature by concrete walls and urban sprawl.
