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"Road closed" sign on Duffield Road ahead of a controlled burn at Awendaw Savanna, located near McClellanville, South Carolina.

The US Forest Service describes the savanna as, "a high quality example of a fire-maintained, wetland longleaf pine savanna. These savannas are extremely uncommon globally and are composed of a very open canopy of longleaf pine, sometimes mixed with pond pine or pond cypress, and a thick and diverse herb layer.
[...] The process critical to this high diversity of herbaceous plants is prescribed fire, on a 2-3 year rotation. Management of the Awendaw savanna with frequent prescribed fire, is particularly challenging due to its’ location in proximity to a busy state highway."

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