The air is warm, the smell of bright Florida sunshine ... But this is true old-growth longleaf pine, never logged, the ground cover rare cutthroat grass. Some of these trees are more than 185 ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 85, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 308-316 (9 pages) As a result of human activity, longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Miller) forests in the southern United States have been lost ...

Longleaf pine was the dominant tree species in the Southeast when Europeans arrived in the New World. Its range covered more than 90 million acres from Virginia to Florida and then west to Texas.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently downlisted the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened.

Unfortunately, long-leaf pine ecosystems are now among the most endangered ... Most recently, Hurricane Helene wiped out 18 nest cavity trees in just one area in Florida. Red-cockaded woodpecker.