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Agencies Strive to Save Tracts Near South Carolina's Lake Murray.

By Tim Flach, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 30--Federal and state wildlife officials want a third of the shoreline around Lake Murray kept natural. It's the first time they have advocated a specific cap on development.

The proposal, released Wednesday, identifies 78 scattered tracts in addition to those already set aside for preservation, many of which are on the lake's western half.

With the addition of those parcels, a third of the 649.5-mile shoreline would be saved. Currently, a quarter of the waterfron

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