CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources is calling for citizens to recycle used oyster shells and discarded Christmas trees through programs aimed at promoting ...

'Tis the season. Families and friends gather this time of year around Christmas trees and often get together around a blazing fire for oyster roasts. After Christmas, assuming that you have used a ...

For years, Maryland has participated in celebrating National Oyster Day on Aug. 5. Although many gastronomists still encourage oyster consumption in months that end in “R,” this rule has become more ...

Stacks of oyster shells are piled into the boats of local captains and ferried off to the Lemon Tree mound site on April 22, 2022. And as oyster larvae land on the reef, it will become part of the ...

Volunteers for the Coalition for Coastal Louisiana stack bags of recycled oyster shells along the shoreline on September 20th, 2024. The reef will grow and and continue protecting the land from ...

For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, ...

South Carolina’s coastlines are falling apart, and it’s happening alarmingly fast. But one of the biggest projects in South Carolina Department of Natural Resources history is relying on the humble ...

The environmental department is seeing more seagrasses and wave protection from an oyster reef they installed just offshore of their current Philippe Park project a few years ago.

One night in March, Jason Pitre left his Bayou Rosa Oyster Farm in Leeville with sacks of oysters bound for a fundraiser in New Orleans. He’d just pulled those oysters from the waters of Bayou ...