Lowcountry Lecture: Barberry Woods with Keith Bowers

Join us Tuesday May 19th at 6:30pm at the Citadel's Grimsley Hall Copeland Auditorium for a lecture by Biohabitats Founder Keith Bowers on the the recently completed Barberry Woods Drainage Improvement Project.

The Dale T. Morris Ecological Park (Barberry Woods) is a 19.4-acre nature-based resilience project on Johns Island, South Carolina, designed to address chronic flooding through engineered bottomland hardwood wetlands rather than conventional drainage infrastructure. At its core, more than 11 acres of restored freshwater wetlands move stormwater through three interconnected natural basins — capturing, storing, and slowly releasing water in ways that buffer surrounding neighborhoods from increasingly frequent flood events. More than 15,000 plants representing over 50 native species were designed and planted using both reference condition surveys and projected hydrologic regimes, establishing a structurally complex, self-sustaining ecosystem. 

Lectures are typically the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 6:30 PM, and tasty snacks will be provided for socializing (BYO non-alcoholic beverage or water bottle) We will meet in The Citadel Grimsley Hall Copeland Auditorium, 3 Jenkins Ave, Charleston, SC 29403. Free parking is available after 5:00 pm along Summerall Field (highlighted on map).  See below for a parking pass if needed for surrounding lots (NOT needed for regular visitor parking).