Wednesday, November 10, 2021

SCWA Assists in Building Wood Duck Boxes

PINEWOOD, SC Back in August, the Plantersville Cultural Center was invited to Milton Hall to engage in wood duck box building as part of a fundraiser for their school.

Milton Hall served as a conservation educational opportunity to show students what Milton Hall, a large landholding plantation, is presently used for. Denmark Lumbar Company was kind enough to donate cypress wood along with the South Carolina Waterfowl Association’s donation of metal to build predator guards. The students were able to safely navigate an excavator and learn how planted rice fields support waterfowl habitats. Several SCWA employees came to assist in these activities: Draikel Tindal, Mike Kruze, Mason Briggs and Hunter Horn.

The South Carolina Waterfowl Association exists to enhance and perpetuate South Carolina’s wildlife heritage through education and habitat conservation. The mission of Camp Leopold is “to create an ecologically literate citizenry by heightening student awareness of the natural world, fine-tuning the skills necessary to read the landscape, and instilling a love, respect, and admiration for the land so that each individual might develop a personal land ethic.”

 

 

If you would like more information on this project, please contact Maria Hackney, the SCWA Communications Director at communications@scwa.org.

CONTACT:

South Carolina Waterfowl Association

Maria Hackney

communications@scwa.org

(803) 825-8078