*BEST NEWS EVER!!!!!!*

[XemaSab]

I am SO THRILLED!!!! A few years ago I spent the summer on this site, and since then I have been really bummed, thinking it had all been logged in the interim.

There are victories out there to celebrate!

:woohoo:

Heaven and High Water in South Carolina’s New Wilderness

ONE moment, the paddler was sliding through a narrow passageway between an ancient bald cypress and a towering tupelo gum tree. The next, the upturned yellow hull of his kayak was all any of us could see.

“Hey Chris,” I called to our outfitter and guide. “Brad’s upside down.”

It wasn’t as if we hadn’t been warned. We were told about spooky trees and chilly black water a few hours earlier as we planned our route through the Woodbury Tract — a newly created 25,668-acre nature preserve along the Little Pee Dee River in South Carolina, part of a $300 million purchase of timber company lands by conservation groups.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/travel/escapes/19adventurer.html?8dpc

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. Glad to hear some good news.

Out here in southwest Oregon loggers are going after old growth on 4 sites, with the help of the BLM.

[XemaSab]

2. Not the biscuit!

:o