Interlaken Wildlife Center
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Catching Your First Fish at the Interlaken Wildlife Center
On November 6 and 14, 2024, Sandy Run K-8 and St. Matthews K-8 Schools separately brought sixty and just over seventy 4th and 5th graders to participate in the first ever Pond Ecology Program[...]
The History of the Interlaken Dove Shoot
One of the traditions that Gary Dietrich inherited when he brought Interlaken Plantation in 1989 was a grand annual dove shoot and barbecue that David and Bill Summers first started in 1972. Carolyn Dietrich and[...]
The Bobwhites Are Calling Your Name
As I write this blog, bobwhites are calling outside my office here at the Interlaken Wildlife Center. This morning I heard one right outside my apartment door and crept closer and closer toward the sound.[...]
A Landscape Maintained for Wildlife and for People to Enjoy
For more than thirty years, Gary and Carolyn Dietrich have lived on the Interlaken property outside Cameron, South Carolina, and managed it for wildlife. Their efforts have produced a beautiful mixed landscape of mature[...]
The Headwaters of Four Hole Swamp
One of the Interlaken Wildlife Centers richest natural features is the headwaters of Four Hole Swamp starts on the northern boundary and flows three-quarters of a mile right through the middle of the property. Four Hole Swamp is a small blackwater river that is a tributary to the Edisto River. After the swamp begins on the Interlaken property in Calhoun County, it flows 62 miles to the confluence. But it all starts at Interlaken.
Interlaken Wildlife Center’s Partnership with the South Carolina Waterfowl Association
While the Interlaken Wildlife Center (IWC) is an independent not-for-profit with its own board of trustees, director and staff, it has an important informal and formal partnership with the South Carolina Waterfowl Association.