Ivanhoe Plantation Gets Help to Improve Wildlife Habitat –
Georgia, October 2006 Ivanhoe Plantation is an old rice and
timber plantation located in Camden County along the Satilla
River, north of Woodbine, the county seat. Ivanhoe is owned by a
group of businessmen from Brunswick and St. Simons Island. It is
utilized mostly as a hunting plantation and nature preserve,
with the two primary goals of preserving the plantation and
improving the wildlife habitat. The owners requested assistance
from Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to improve
wildlife habitat, both on the uplands and in the wetland fields
where rice was once grown, while producing income from the
timberland on the property in a sustainable manner. Beginning in
1999, NRCS worked with the owners to develop a wildlife
management plan that would allow them to cut enough timber to
finance the needed improvements to their plantation and to
enhance the existing wildlife habitat. EQIP funds from the
Coastal Priority Area were used to replant