{"id":770713,"date":"2026-02-24T05:22:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=770713"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:59:29","slug":"south-carolina-aquatic-biodiversity-conservation","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/south-carolina-aquatic-biodiversity-conservation","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Takes a Proactive Approach to Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[342392,493317,295342,493316,493318],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478432],"esri_blog_department":[478222],"class_list":["post-770713","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esri-insider","tag-fish","tag-river-basins","tag-south-carolina","tag-stream-preservation","tag-watersheds","esri-blog-category-biodiversity","esri_blog_department-conservation-and-environment"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"South Carolina\u2019s Aquatic Planning Tool maps and models impacts on freshwater species, aiding proactive conservation and climate adaptation. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"South Carolina\u2019s Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) uses an advanced GIS-based Aquatic Planning Tool to map, model and forecast the impacts of land use and climate change on priority freshwater fish species.\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>SCDNR\u2019s GIS tool models impacts on 66 priority fish species through the year 2100, accounting for land use and weather changes.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Users can adjust forest and urban cover in catchments to visualize how changes affect species health downstream.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>GIS mapping helped inform conservation efforts for the newly identified Bartram\u2019s bass, showcasing the tool\u2019s broader value for biodiversity protection.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Savannah River\u2019s headwaters are high in the Blue Ridge Mountains, cold streams on the edge of a continental divide that guides them east toward the Atlantic Ocean. By the end of the 350-mile journey, these waters have fed one of North America\u2019s most biodiverse watersheds.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that\u2019s just one of eight major river basins that run through South Carolina, a high count that reflects the state\u2019s varied terrain and hydrology.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To protect this aquatic habitat, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) developed the Aquatic Planning Tool. Created with wildlife officials from North Carolina and Georgia, the states it shares watersheds with, and Clemson University scientists, the tool takes a basin-level approach to freshwater fish conservation.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses geographic information system (GIS) technology to understand how and where to protect fish species. It maps where species live today and projects where they will survive a century from now, when the condition of the river basins could be dramatically different.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Clean SWAP<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCDNR plans to launch the tool in 2026, to coincide with the release of South Carolina\u2019s new State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP). Most states are required to update their SWAP every 10 years\u2014for SCDNR, 2025 marked that milestone.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than an inventory, a SWAP is a blueprint for preventing decline. The plan aims to protect species and habitats before they reach crisis, not after.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Aquatic Planning Tool follows this proactive philosophy. It\u2019s not merely a measure of the current health of populations; it connects species health to land-use decisions and climate projections.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal was to make a tool that could show how many species are in the state's watershed basins now. It can also show how that might change in the future, given things like weather and land-cover changes, said Joe Lemeris, who until recently managed SCDNR\u2019s GIS program. \u201cThe tool is a way for us to understand how the change can impact certain species in different scenarios.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[770718,770719,770717,770720]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Streaming Services<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its 2025 SWAP, SCDNR found 53 freshwater fish that fit the criteria for \u201cspecies of greatest conservation need,\u201d representing 36 percent of all fish species in South Carolina\u2019s rivers. An additional 13 freshwater fish species of greatest conservation need identified by the 2025 North Carolina SWAP are also included in the tool to support basin-wide conservation efforts.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the tool\u2019s name implies, the emphasis was on streams and tributaries, rather than larger rivers, and for good reason.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Streams are the dominant habitat for aquatic life in river basins. Their health is directly affected by land use, watershed management, and disturbances upstream. This makes stream assessment a sensitive indicator of both local and regional conditions.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Identifying species was the first step; next came geography. South Carolina\u2019s eight river basins contain over 28,000 miles of streams and tributaries, a distance larger than Earth\u2019s circumference. SCDNR, in close consultation with scientists, tackled this immensity and complexity by narrowing the focus down to a few key locations.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe underlying data comes from predictions across a basin of where a species is expected to be,\u201d Lemeris said. \u201cWe feed data into several models, depending on the species, and then we average those models together.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":771691,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Looking Ahead<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tool\u2019s power lies in its interactivity. Users can test the effect of different changes to the habitat.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are slider bars that adjust the percentage of forest cover, urban cover, and whatever else is important for that species,\u201d Lemeris said. \u201cYou click and it reruns the model for that local catchment drainage area, and projects both the original and modified data.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tool doesn\u2019t just model isolated impacts; it traces ripple effects downstream.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can zoom into a catchment and modify it because you know there are plans for development that will reduce forest cover by 20 percent,\u201d Lemeris said. \u201cIt tells you how that could affect other catchments downstream.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tool allows SCDNR to make conservation recommendations, taking both the short and long views. To anticipate how climate change may affect freshwater biodiversity, the tool models present-day species distributions alongside projected distributions under multiple future climate scenarios through the year 2100. These scenarios reflect different levels of global climate action, helping users understand the range of potential outcomes for freshwater fish.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s important to know what we have now, so we know how to protect it,\u201d Lemeris said. \u201cBut it\u2019s equally important to know what we\u2019ll have 50 or 100 years in the future. There may be places not currently protected that we need to protect now. They could become strongholds even if the rest of an animal\u2019s range is lost.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vision extends beyond fish. Although the Aquatic Planning Tool currently focuses on 66 fish, Lemeris considers it a conceptual prototype. As the framework matures, its scope will grow.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRight now, we\u2019re focusing on freshwater fish,\u201d he said. \u201cBut once this tool is out for a little while, we can start to explore what data might be available for modeling other suites of species, like crayfish and freshwater mussels. We\u2019ll expand the number of taxa so that we have a more holistic view of how water bodies are being impacted.\u201d<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/conservation\/overview\">GIS is used to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and put nature on a path to recovery<\/a>.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":771692,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Master Class in Naming a Bass<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Savannah River Basin is home to over 100 native freshwater fish. One species, the Bartram's bass, is <em>extremely<\/em> native, found nowhere else on Earth.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Savannah basin starts in the southern Appalachians and tightly follows the drainage down the border of Georgia and South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean,\u201d said Joe Lemeris, former GIS program manager at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). \u201cIt\u2019s not connected to anything else. So the genetics of this fish have been maintained in that one drainage. It hasn\u2019t been cross-pollinating with other bass in neighboring drainages.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet, until recently, the Bartram\u2019s bass did not exist\u2014at least not officially. The fish was easily identifiable by the turquoise ring around its eyes, but the question remained whether it was a unique species or a variation of the redeye bass.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serious anglers, who prized the fish for its stamina and fighting ability, were convinced it was its own species. Many scientists agreed, but proof required data.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GIS tools used by SCDNR and others were essential for settling the debate. Researchers used GIS to map sampling sites in the Savannah and Saluda River basins, compare habitats, and plot the results of extensive genetic testing.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The debate was settled in 2025, when an article published in the taxonomy journal <em>Zootaxa<\/em> confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnr.sc.gov\/news\/2025\/Sept\/Sept2-bass.php\">the species<\/a>(scientific name: <em>Micropterus pucpuggy<\/em>) is unique.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The timing meant SCDNR could include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahnow.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/fishing\/2025\/09\/10\/savannah-river-system-is-home-to-newly-identified-species-bartrams-bass\/86080737007\/\">Bartram\u2019s bass<\/a> as part of its GIS-based Stream Conservation Tool. The fish highlights the tool\u2019s aim of connecting watershed health to human activity.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species is highly sensitive to habitat changes, including land use, water quality, and <a href=\"https:\/\/scdnrblog.com\/2025\/08\/27\/spot-the-difference-bartrams-bass-signage-project\/\">invasive species<\/a>. As both a sport fish and keystone indicator of aquatic ecosystem health, protecting it supports broader stream biodiversity, satisfies recreational interests, and fulfills conservation mandates.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOne function of the tool is to target our habitat surveys based on the model,\u201d Lemeris said. \u201cWe might say, \u2018We have a high probability of finding Bartram\u2019s bass in this area, but we\u2019ve never actually surveyed it. 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