BY BRIAN FLEWELLING Special to The Island Packet March 29, 2018 03:05 PM Residents of Beaufort County know that we are immensely fortunate to live in an area of unparalleled beauty, but few realize that pro-active county land conservation initiatives over the past two decades have also helped achieve quantifiable economic benefits by conserving large […]
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Economic Benefits Report Released
STUDY DETAILS ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF PROTECTING OPEN SPACE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY The Trust for Public Land presented a new report to Beaufort County Council at its January 22, 2018 council meeting which showed the county’s parks, trails and open spaces program generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year in economic benefits to county residents. […]
Economic Benefits Report to be Released January 22 & 23, 2018
Come and learn about the myriad of economic benefits that our protected natural resources provide to Beaufort County Citizens! The Trust for Public Land will release its “Economic Benefits of Parks, Trails and Conserved Open Spaces in Beaufort County, SC” Report on January 22 at 6 PM to Beaufort County Council. Three additional public presentations […]
The Citizens have spoken…about Passive Parks
Over the last 15+ years the County has protected the important ecological, historic, and cultural resources of Beaufort County through the Rural and Critical Land Preservation Program. The majority of the properties weren’t purchased specifically as parks, many can be opened up to public use and allow the important values of those properties to remain protected. […]
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