Keep Trees NC
Our aim is to bring awareness and a voice to citizens who want to preserve and protect as much of our local community and tree-scape as possible for future generations.
Keep Trees NC Wilmington is a grass roots movement to end clear cutting and mature growth canopy cutting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Our mission is to keep original mature-growth tree canopy and wetlands, in the midst of rapid and large-scale development in the Wilmington area.
Existing local tree protection ordinances may need to be improved, expanded, or properly enforced.
After hearing the upset from so many local residents about rapid tree loss and overdevelopment (and all the negative impacts of that), we decided to stop complaining and start trying to understand how we as a community got to this point (so fast), and how we can change it.
Although, New Hanover County and the City of Wilmington have local tree ordinances and a recent Urban Forestry Master Plan, and many organizations are doing good work to plant and educate about trees (see below), developers may have found a way around our laws.
The word is out. Wilmington is a developer's dream. While many of us live and love the area for its small-town feel, green roadways, nature and outdoor access, development projects are turning our "green scape, into a "grey scape".
Ready to take the next step?
Citizens are in the dark about why clear-cutting and inappropriately sited development is happening. Neighborhood-by-neighborhood, our communities are having to spend so much time and energy fighting for what should be a given, protected trees and green spaces. Its time to get an understanding of what’s going on and how we can preserve our community for the future.
In the News
Observe most local development projects going up and you can clearly see something is not working. Subcontractors are clearing land and may cut too deep into tree buffers, harm root systems, cut down protected trees and pay a small/token fines for disregard to tree protection laws. Local news outlets are reporting on overdevelopment and the harm it is causing.
Good Work Already Being Done
