...undesirable development. Scott Riviere signed an easement on 17 acres along Grace Avenue in Aiken's horse district. Lee Dane, one of the first presidents of the land trust, signed a conservation easement on 300 acres of her farm in the Ridge...

AIKEN - Sightings of the extremely shy and not often seen bittern bird told environmentalist Lee Dane that Aiken's Carolina Bay Nature Reserve is back. As late as 1996, the shallow, oval-shaped body of water, hidden behind...

...fowl like cranes, herons and ducks, and several bat houses that are attracting a lot of bats," Ms. Durkis said. Lee Dane, president of Aiken County Open Land Trust, one of the organizations fighting to save the reserve, said the bay is...

...fowl like cranes, herons and ducks, and several bat houses that are attracting a lot of bats," Ms. Durkis said. Lee Dane, president of Aiken County Open Land Trust, one of the organizations fighting to save the reserve, said the bay is...

...200,000 of the $600,000 estimated to buy the land already has been raised in a little less than two years, said Lee Dane, vice president of the Aiken County Open Land Trust, which is working to save the reserve. The fund raising began with...

...Aiken County Openland Trust and a number of New York Organizations. Survivors include her daughter, Lydia Hemsworth "Lee" Dane, Ridge Spring; four grandchildren, Roger W. Dane, Barbara H. Dane, Joseph S. Stout, III and William C. Stout...