Volunteer Chuck Schaeffer teaching on the boardwalk of Congaree National Park, South Carolina. Photo by Juli Jones.

Of the 50 states, South Carolina is not one often associated with land preservation. But that’s not the case this fall. A bill passed by Congress in October has granted part of the funding to expand the state’s only national park and the home of the nation’s largest tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Read more