Don’t miss the opportunity to nominate your favorite community tree or trees! The deadline to nominate this year’s recipient is July 7, 2008
Download A Heritage Tree Nomination Form

South Carolina’s Heritage Trees program of the SC Urban & Community Forestry Council was developed in 2004 as a way to identify, celebrate, and recognize those remarkable trees that evoke great community spirit in South Carolina.

Nominees can be trees with special historical or cultural significance or, simply, a tree that is of special significance to the community. All nominees must be trees located on public property within South Carolina. Trees may be nominated for their historical, cultural or other special significance to the community.

Congratulations to our previous years' winners.

McClellanville’s Deerhead Oak was Heritage Tree for 2007

The Deerhead Oak in McClellanville has been a community treasure for many generations. The tree, a Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) has been the subject of poems and paintings. A line drawing of the tree serves as the logo for the village museum. The tree is aptly named as one of the main branches looks like a deer head. The South Carolina Urban and Community Forestry Council will coordinate with the Town of McClellanville to honor the tree with a ceremony and the awarding of a bronze plaque that denotes the Deerhead Oak as the Council’s Heritage Tree for 2007. Past winners of the Heritage Tree award are the Angel Oak in Charleston, the Wade Hampton Oak in Conway, the oak allee on Boundary Street in Aiken and the grove of trees within the Horseshoe at the University of South Carolina.

The city of Aiken and the city of Conway both had nominated trees that were named Heritage trees in 2005.