Turkey Restoration Project

For many years, the thunderous gobbles of the wild turkey were all but absent from South Carolina's Lowcountry, the result of unrestricted hunting and habitat reduction. But thanks to restoration programs such as the one SCE&G initiated along the South Fork of the Edisto River near the Cope Electric Generating Station and in Lexington County, turkeys have made a remarkable comeback. SCE&G played a major role in getting these lands designated as turkey protection areas for restocking efforts and currently works with state wildlife officials to maintain them. Utility lands at Neal Shoals and Parr Hydro provided several of the first sites in the state where the Department of Natural Resources was able to periodically trap turkeys for restocking elsewhere.