Ashepoo Combahee Edisto Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve

The Ashepoo Combahee Edisto Basin protects 350,000 acres of South Carolina’s coastal heartland—salt marshes, tidal creeks, and bottomland forests that filter water, buffer storms, and nurture everything from oysters to wood storks. This is working wilderness where research meets conservation, where the Gullah Geechee heritage runs deep, and where estuaries do the quiet work of keeping our coasts alive. Not famous. Just essential. Rep the reserve that proves protection and production can coexist.