The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees. Homes with trees have higher property values, and green space plays a major role in improving mental and physical health. “Trees absorb the sound of traffic, they cool our neighborhoods, and reduce energy costs by shading building and protecting them from winter winds. “A thriving urban forest offers many advantages to the community,” said Bernard. These efforts, along with a tree board/department and a tree ordinance, have earned the Town of Mount Pleasant the designation of Tree City USA for 33 consecutive years. These trees are to be distributed in the spring.Įach year, the Town of Mount Pleasant plants nearly 8,000 trees in the community (mostly native live oaks) and spends a minimum of $2 per residents on tree planting projects. The planting was followed by a visit to the facility’s greenhouse where more than 35 swamp chestnut oak and laurel oak trees that were being grown by students from bare root seedlings provided earlier in the year by the Town as part of a Take Root Mount Pleasant initiative. This hands-on experience allowed students to further their understanding of digging, tree-planting, and mulching. More than a dozen students were led in the planting by Eddie Bernard, Mount Pleasant Urban Forester, and Peyton Schultz, ECCAS Horticultural Instructor. Please follow the rules as this is suppose to be a happy time and we want to keep everyone safe. Masks are mandatory as well as social distancing. In South Carolina, Arbor Day is celebrated on the first Friday of December. Just a reminder for all that are invited to Friendsgiving tonight, all of the cdc guidelines will absolutely be enforced.
MOUNT PLEASANT, SC (December 3, 2021) – The Town of Mount Pleasant and students at the East Cooper Center for Advanced Studies (ECCAS) today celebrated National Arbor Day by planting a crab apple tree on the grounds of the facility. Dock of the Bay Lyrics: Well, well, well, yeah - oooh / Sittin in the mornin sun / Ill be sittin till the evenin come / Watching the ships roll in, yea / Then I watch em roll away again. By Martine Miller, MPIO – Town of Mount Pleasant Communications Manager