I was tromping around last week in what I regard as some of the most beautiful forests in the world — mature, longleaf pine forests. With their stately trees in open, grassy settings, they look more ...

Talk to anyone who works with longleaf pine trees – which many agree are as iconic to the Southeast as redwoods are to California – and one number is bound to come up: 90 million acres. That’s the ...

ABSTRACT The US Fish and Wildlife Service has engaged conservation partners to assist in assessing current conditions and needs to retain and restore one of the South’s rarest pine ecosystems. The ...

The massive public-private effort to bring back the South’s most iconic tree—the longleaf pine—is falling short of its original restoration goal. The drive to revive the longleaf pine—the state tree ...

YEMASSEE — Making the sweeping right turn from U.S. Highway 21 onto Savannah Highway, a faint column of pale gray smoke began to build a couple miles to the east. A controlled burn was getting ...

Julie Moore, a board member for the Southern Conservation Partners, has no shortage of enthusiasm for the longleaf pine. This is in part because she has witnessed first-hand the intriguing systems and ...

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In some areas of the country, the choice between mulching with pine needles and wood mulch is a tough one. Since the 1980s, pine straw has been the favorite mulch in the South. It is inexpensive, ...