a clump of slow-to-decay pine needles and other growth, carpet much of the forest. That duff would burn too hot and kill the mature longleaf trees if burned indiscriminately. Since 2019 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) is setting up a prescribed burn of an area within its longleaf pine forest on the main campus over winter break.

Urbanization, agriculture, forest conversion due to logging, and suppression of natural fires have degraded the vast majority of longleaf pine forests. Development also exposes snakes to being run ...