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The "SCDNR Outdoor Forums" has 8,345 registered users and a good amount of activity, but the site may go dark as the S.C. Department of Natural Resources moves to a new system and continues to lose manpower to monitor the the postings.

The State has a story on what's happening, you can also check out this thread for the users' reactions.

If the state isn't interested in being an active part of the discussion, then it doesn't make that much sense for them to host the forum anyways, but it'd be a shame to see all that material erased.