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Dead Cabbage Palm Trees

This site contains dead cabbage palm trees. Ossabaw Island has 9,000 acres of forest including cabbage palm trees. Cabbage palmetto (Sabel palmetto) is one of the few palm trees that is native to the Southeastern U.S. For this species, rising sea levels, hurricanes and organic soil fires are harmful to these palms. The majority of the trees at this site died from sea level rise infiltrating the roots.

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