A high density of trees and vegetation on the island serves to fortify its diffusive effect on the velocity of ocean waves during a storm surge. Thus the trees and shrubs of the Maritime Forest on Sullivan’s Island’s accreted land play an important role in the protection of Mount Pleasant and downtown Charleston, in addition to the protecting the middle and back side of the island itself.

In an almost exact repeat of the troubling October meeting where four councilmembers rushed the original mediation plan through to a vote, the same councilmembers did it again in March with a revised cutting plan that could be worse for the forest.

This investigation by the Post and Courier shows how mass tree removal is creating more flooding in the Charleston area.

Your phone call and email to the state agencies who need to allow permits for this mass cutting will make a huge impact. Please tell them you oppose the proposed cutting.

Sullivan’s Island is one of the luckiest barrier islands on the East Coast. Our beach is growing, not eroding and that’s allowed our Maritime Forest to flourish.