Because of the anticipated seed shortage that comes with a low estimate of pine cone crops for the third consecutive year, ...

It’s well-known that Red Hills hunting estates have some of the finest examples of old-growth longleaf pine forests left on the planet. This is a treasure for which we should all be thankful ...

Forest Service and partners to conduct longleaf pine-carbon research on military bases in 3 states Study to answer carbon cycle questions, help offset emissions, and promote forest health ...

At one time the longleaf pine forest was the most significant type of forest in the southern United States. Now only 3 percent of the original forests remains. What happened?

Two grants from Gulf Power and its parent will locally plant 2,200 acres of longleaf pine. ... U.S. Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...

Pine snakes, the eastern counterpart of what folks call bull snakes in Texas and gopher snakes in California, are a touchstone of a thriving longleaf pine forest, a natural habitat ravaged by ...

Bartram was describing the longleaf pine forest that covered the Southeast. It was the dominant pine from Virginia to Florida and over to east Texas, covering an estimated 90 million acres.

This photo, published in the book "Economic Botany of Alabama," was taken in 1902 by Dr. E.A. Smith and R.S. Hodges. It shows a magnificent virgin longleaf pine forest once located about ten miles ...

Georgia, however, has lost some 97% of its longleaf pine forest during the past 150 years, mostly due to logging and replacement with huge plantations of other pine species.

The Northlake Nature Center hopes to recreate in its 400-acre preserve near Mandeville the experience of walking through a forest of longleaf pines, a native species that once covered 90 ...

The Francis Marion National Forest has a goal to restore and maintain longleaf pine on 91,500 acres," wrote U.S. Forest Service spokesperson Kaleb Hoeft in an email, adding that the plan will add ...

Now the scenic property has a new mission: bringing back a Louisiana longleaf pine forest. After opening in the 1950s, Hodges Gardens in West Louisiana became a state park a decade ago.