Rice fields of South Carolina: A resource inventory and management policy evaluation

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Gresham ◽  
Donal D. Hook
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Resource Inventory

scholarly journals Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Kelly
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
Postwar Reconstruction ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Rich Material

The wave of strikes that swept across the South Carolina rice fields in late 1876 offer rich material for revisiting the most compelling issues in the postwar Reconstruction of the US's former slave states. They expose sharp tensions between the Republican Party's black, working-class constituency and its mostly white, bourgeois leadership. Recent studies, based almost entirely on Northern published opinion, have made the case that Northern Republican elites were driven to “abandon the mid-century vision of an egalitarian free labor society” by assertive ex-slaves oblivious to the “mutual interests” that ostensibly bound them and their employers. This article, based on extensive archival research, asserts that similar fissures opened up between freedpeople and southern Republican officials. In a series of highly effective mobilizations against local planters and determined attempts to block party officials from betraying their interests, rice fieldhands demonstrated a clear understanding of the critical issues at stake during the months leading up to the collapse of Reconstruction. Their intervention contrasted not only with the feeble holding operation pursued by moderates in the upper levels of the Republican party, but also with the timidity of many locally rooted black officials nearer to the grassroots.

scholarly journals A forty-seven year comparison of the vascular flora at three abandoned rice fields, Georgetown, South Carolina, U.S.A.

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-282
Author(s):  
Richard Stalter ◽  
Joseph Rachlin ◽  
John Baden
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Phragmites Australis ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
Rice Field ◽  
Vascular Plant ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Water Salinity ◽  
Vascular Flora ◽  
Vascular Plant Species

The vascular flora identified in 1968–1969 in three rice fields of the Winyah Bay Estuary at the Bell W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Georgetown County, South Carolina, abandoned in 1915, was compared with the vascular flora present in 1987–1991 and 2013–2015. Twenty vascular plant species were identified in 1968–1969 and 22 in 2013–2015 at the most saline marsh, Thousand Acre Rice Field. Forty-seven taxa were reported at Airport Marsh in 1968–1969 and 27 in 2013–2015. Fifty-six taxa were reported at Alderly in 1968–1969 with 41 identified there in 2013–2015. A parsimony algorithm was used to evaluate the distribution and co-occurrence of vascular brackish marsh species in these fields sampled at the three intervals. There was a reduction in flora at the two least saline sites, Alderly and Airport Marsh, from 1968–69 to 1987–91 and 2013–2015. Three factors—rising sea level, an increase in water salinity, and invasion by Phragmites australis—may explain this shift. There was also a shift in the flora at Thousand Acre Rice Field from 1967–1969 to 1987–1991 and 2013–2015 after the marsh was savaged by Hurricane Hugo in 1989. Invasion by non-native Phragmites australis at all sites and increase in water salinity at all sites best explain the reduction in vascular plant species at Airport Marsh and Alderly over the 47-year collection period.

Hydrochory and Successional Changes in Abandoned Rice Fields, Georgetown County, South Carolina

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianna. Gielstra ◽  
Cassandra. Runyon ◽  
John D. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Rice Fields

scholarly journals A Policy Lens of South Carolina Coastal Stormwater Management

2016 ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Lori A. Dickes ◽  
Jeffery Allen ◽  
Monika Jalowiecka ◽  
Katie Buckley
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Stormwater Management ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Low Impact Development ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Pond Management ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Stormwater Pond

Similar to many environmental issues today, stormwater management lies within a network of regulatory and policy oversight. As South Carolina coastal communities continue to experience economic and population growth, understanding the broader policy context of stormwater pond management is important. This study was aimed at compiling the state-of-the-knowledge of stormwater pond management policy for the eight coastal counties of South Carolina. In order to enhance researchers and policymakers understanding of the stormwater policy and regulatory environment, this research utilizes a mixed methods approach. A mixed methods approach allows researchers to explore different components of a particular research question by deploying more than one methodological tool. This research employed three primary qualitative techniques: a policy instrument scan, a regional online survey and a local policy and economic focus group. Results indicate that while potentially strong policy exists at all levels (federal, state and local), there are identified gaps and stakeholder concerns around policy implementation and proper stormwater pond management at the local level. Additionally, with many stormwater ponds managed by Homeowners’ Associations (HOAs) there appears to be wide variation in their management and maintenance. Some of the recommendations identified in these results include: encouraging more Low Impact Development (LID) practices both for new development and re-development, improved communication on and best practices in pond maintenance, research and development of alternative pond management methods, more effective communication from South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) related to design criteria, effective maintenance and training opportunities for engineers preparing stormwater plans, and improved education for developers and HOAs. This document provides a framework to help lay the foundation for future stormwater pond policy studies that can assist policy makers, managers, stakeholders and other decision makers to more fully understand issues impacting water resource management in South Carolina.

scholarly journals Mapping Antebellum Rice Fields as a Basis for Understanding Human and Ecological Consequences of the Era of Slavery

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 831
Author(s):  
R. Daniel Hanks ◽  
Robert F. Baldwin ◽  
Travis H. Folk ◽  
Ernie P. Wiggers ◽  
Richard H. Coen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rice Fields ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Insight Into

Model systems enlightened by history that provide understanding and inform contemporary and future landscapes are needed. Through transdisciplinary collaboration, historic rice fields of the southeastern United States can be such models, providing insight into how human–ecological systems work. Rice culture in the United States began in the 1670s; was primarily successfully developed, managed, and driven by the labor of enslaved persons; and ended with the U.S. Civil War. During this time, wetlands were transformed into highly managed farming systems that left behind a system of land use legacies when abandoned after slavery. Historically accepted estimates range from 29,950 to 60,703 ha; however, using remotely sensed data (e.g., LiDAR) and expert opinion, we mapped 95,551 ha of historic rice fields in South Carolina, USA. After mapping, the rice fields’ current wetland and land cover characteristics were assessed. Understanding the geographic distribution and characteristics allows insight into the overall human and ecological costs of forced land use change that can inform future landscapes.

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