The Greenville News from Greenville, South Carolina • Page 99

Sunday, April "3 Exceptional Lakeside North Keowee is a collection of planned communities. Located on the undiscovered north end of Lake Keowee, only 45 minutes from Greenville, each community has been designed to maintain the area's natural beauty and serenity. An outstanding selection of affordable scenic homesites I wooded tekefront, wooded I. "ccess to 1 SC. WILDUFE DEPT.

PHOTO Glassy Mountain is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Upstate aiassv luioonve newest S.C. '11 1H If 'These gentlemen could certainly have made more money selling this property to a developer' Stuart Greeter, Heritage Trust 'n i ill i "'iiii wi' ii Yes, I want to learn North Keowee Lakeside Communities Please send your no obligation North Keowee Information Packet We are interested in arranging a visit to North Keowee Worth looking many bargains offered for sale every day in the Classified columns! is one reserves by Pickens County residents and by people from all over the state." Representing a near-solid block of granite, Glassy Mountain is structurally similar to the much-larger Table Rock Mountain to the north. The mountain has extensive bare rock on its north face, forming sheer cliffs in places with nearly a 400-foot drop. Present in scattered patches on the dome is a regionally threatened plant species thousand leaf groundsel. Jim Sorrow and Mary Strayer, nongame biologists with the wildlife department's Nongame and Heritage Trust Section based in Clemson, oversee the Glassy Mountain preserve.

In South Carolina, Sorrow said, almost all monadnocks (the term coes from an Indian name describing such a feature in New Hampshire) occur within 100 miles of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Some were apparently part of ancient mountain ridges trailing off from the Blue Ridge but are now standing separately after eons of erosion. S.C. WILDLIFE DEPT. PHOTO only in a five-mile area Name Address City Phone.

jT JT A said McCoy, "but we wanted to keep it in its natural state. My family and I would go up there to observe the beauty of the mountains and trees and to enjoy the view of the countryside." Development would have spoiled Glassy Mountain, McCoy said, "I have a son who is a lover of the mountains, and a lover of nature itself. And for people like him, if you take all these things away from them, if you put houses up there and block the road, then treasurs like Glassy Mountain are lost forever, and so are the people who would enjoy them." Larry Owen, a member of the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Commission from Easley, said Glassy Mountain "has been a landmark around here for many, many years and has been enjoyed by local residents in a number of ways. Up until now, there hasn't been any kind of management program, but under the care of the wildlife department's Heritage Trust program, it will be appreciated even more Persistent trillium Is found -r "MP UJHt more about State Send Coupon lb: North Keowee Dept.

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The Pick-srf ounty landmark was secured to preserve one of the best remaining examples of a Pied-ifcfiflt monadnock, or isolated tyonntain. IIXH'hese gentlemen could certainly have made more money selling this property to a developer," said Stuart Greeter, land protection coordinator for the Heritage Trust Program. "But they wanted to see it preserved in a natural state." McCoy, who grew up not far from Glassy Mountain in nearby Easley, said the offer to make Glassy Mountain a heritage preserve came at an opportune time because he and Atkinson wanted to keep the property intact to retain its natural beauty. had various people make offers to break the property up and do different things with it," Rare plant survives in Oconee Co. A rare plant which grows only within a five-mile area of South Carolina and Georgia is protected by an agreement signed recently by the state wildlife department and Georgia Power Co.

I A 179-acre tract of land owned by Georgia Power Co. on Battle Creek in Oconee County has been registered with the S.C. Wildlife and Marine Resources Department as an official Heritage Site to protect the federally endangered persistent trillium. A five- to 10-inch tall perennial plant, persistent trillium (Trillium persistens) is listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The plant's range is restricted to a five-mile area in the Tallulah-Tugaloo river system in southwestern Oconee County and in Rabun and Habersham counties in Georgia. Both parties agreed to protect the Battle Creek site's significant natural features by appropriate management. The property is located on Yonah Lake about four miles southwest of the Battle Creek community in Oconee County. Persistent trillium is found in deciduous woods or conifer-deciduous woods of ravines or gorges, under or near the rose bay or Carolina rhododendron. The plants are usually rooted in well-decayed plant material and loose soil and occur singly or in clusters Of less than 10, generally at elevations of 750 to 1,500 feet.

"Persistent trillium belongs to type of habitat that probably left over from another time," says Dr. Bert Pittman, botanist With the state wildlife department's Heritage Trust program. of years ago when the glaciers pushed southward, conditions were much colder than they are now, and perhaps some species like persistent trillium migrated down into the Savannah River Valley, where it was cool and moist, but not icy. This plant was probably much more common at one time." -w SI V-: if 111 1,875 SOFT- 5tX 1 mghr1'- ENDANGERED PLANTS IN S.C. TAKE THE FIRST STEP TQWAR BUILDING YOUR OWN HOME The gorgeous home above is just a sample of the wide range of styles offered in Lowe's Homestead collection.

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A complete list of building materials. A reference sheet describing the use of Lowe's The following plants in South Carolina are federally listed as threatened or endangered: THREATENED Poolsprite (Amphianthus pusillus), Lancaster, Saluda, York counties. Dwarf-flowered heartleaf (Hexastylis nani flora), Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee counties ENDANGERED Small Whorled Pogonia (Isotria medeoloides), Oconee County Pondberry (Lindera melissi folia), Berkeley County Canby's Dropwort (Oxypolis canbyi), Bamberg, Colleton, Richland, Barnwell, Orangeburg, Lee counties Miccosukee Gooseberry (Ribes echinellum), McCormick County Bunched Arrowhead (Sagittaria fasiculata), Greenville County Persistent Trillium (Trillium persistens), Oconee County Relict Trillium (Trillium reliquum), Aiken, Edgefield counties Mountain Sweet Pitcherplant (Sarracenia rubra jonesii), Greenville, Pickens counties Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum) Aiken, Barnwell, Saluda counties Swamp Pink (Helonias bullata), Greenville County Michaux's Sumac (Rhus michauxii), Kershaw County, possibly extirpated in S.C. Black-spored Quillwort (Isoetes melanospora), Lancaster County Rough-leaved Loosestrife (Lysimachia asperulaefolia), Darlington, Richland counties, Possibly extirpated in S.C. an structural building materials.

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