Across South Carolina, more growth is inevitable, and that reality will pose an ever-greater challenge for those passionate about protecting our state's most scenic and environmentally sensitive countryside. That's the larger lesson to learn from the recent, happy resolution between the Audubon Society and Santee Cooper over the utility's controversial plan to run an even-larger transmission line through the Beidler Forest Sanctuary in Dorchester County.

The smaller — but still very important — lesson is how important it is for different organizations with different goals to work together in good faith whenever a significant conflict arises from their differing goals.

As readers of this newspaper's Opinion pages know well, a large number of people have expressed concern recently about th

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