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Aiken County Farmland at Risk: New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Conservation

January 31, 2025

A new study by American Farmland Trust (AFT) reveals that Aiken County could lose an additional 25,000 acres of farmland to development by 2040 if…

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Shaws Creek Preserve: ALC’s Largest Conservation Project to Date

November 13, 2024

By Joanna Dunn Samson The Aiken Land Conservancy (ALC) and the City of Aiken’s protection of the Shaws Creek Preserve (Preserve) in mid-2024 was a…

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Introducing Ryne Huggins

November 13, 2024

We are pleased to announce that Ryne Huggins has joined the Aiken Land Conservancy as the new Stewardship Coordinator. Ryne comes to ALC from The…

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Acquiring the Past for the Future

November 13, 2024

By Jamie Koelker If you follow conservation issues, you may already know that this is an important time for protecting land. We’re the fastest growing…

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Planning the Future of Aiken County

November 13, 2024

When you drive around Aiken County, you will see roads, houses, infrastructure, parks, schools, and all of the other things you’d expect to see in…

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ALC Not Taking Funding for Granted

November 13, 2024

This probably comes as no surprise to anyone reading this but good work costs money. When the entity doing the work is a nonprofit, those…

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