A prescribed fire on Conecuh National Forest in Alabama – photo courtesy of The Longleaf Alliance MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 10, 2025 /CSRwire/ - National Forest Week, held annually during the second week ...

Rex said that the longleaf pine forest was once the second largest forest system in North America, covering over 90 million acres from Virgina to Texas. Today, there are only around 3 million ...

Sunrise through the pines creates nature’s light show. Torreya’s longleaf forest glows like amber in morning light, worth every minute of lost sleep. Photo Credit: Alan Roig During autumn, these ...

The threatened Sherman’s fox squirrel, larger and more colorful than its common gray cousin, makes its home in the park’s longleaf pine sections, where its rusty-orange belly and tail make it stand ...

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 ...

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. The burn ...

Some 57 million acres of longleaf pine forest once stretched across the southeast from Virginia to Texas. But much of it was clear-cut for timber by the early 20th century.

Those precious cones I have been trying to find are formed over a two-year period. And, I have learned, the longleaf pine tree does not usually bear cones until it is 20 to 30 years old.

The City of Wilmington received a sub-award from a grant, given in Jan. 2023, to restore 45 acres of the forest at Halyburton Park. The work includes midstory reduction, wiregrass planting and ...

Pine snakes are one of North America’s largest native snakes, and their eggs are among the biggest of any U.S. snakes. Babies are more than a foot in length when they hatch, longer and heavier ...

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 ...

Google will support the restoration of 1,100 acres of longleaf pine forest in the middle Trinity River watershed in East Texas. Longleaf pine is exceptionally beneficial for our water resources when ...