Florida’s longleaf pine forests had nearly disappeared by the 1990s due to clear-cutting for development and farmland. In recent years, state foresters have worked to restore native longleaf ...

Longleaf pine conservation is considered a key part of climate resilience for Florida and the Southeast. But when it comes to climate change, longleaf pines are not out of the woods.

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 ...

Pine seedlings at the Florida Forest Services’ Andrews Nursery in Chiefland, Florida Author: Isabella Ensign Published: 4:39 PM EDT July 1, 2024 ...

Member of Swamp Head Brewery plants a longleaf pine seedling in January 2019 at Little Orange Creek Preserve in Hawthorne, Florida. Since 2015, 584,379 trees have been planted because of the Tree ...

Longleaf pine forests once covered an estimated 90 million acres of the southeastern United States, but the trees were considered a perfect timber product for use in home construction.

Longleaf pine forests have shaped iconic heritage landscapes like Texas’ Big Thicket, North Carolina’s Cape Fear Arch region and the Okefenokee Swamp, which straddles Georgia and Florida. The ...

The longleaf pine ecosystem that historically covered the majority of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas and patches of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia requires natural fires ...

UF’s first resident wasn’t a person, but a tree. Sprouting before the university was founded, a longleaf pine near Keene-Flint Hall has watched UF grow into what it is today. In April, the ...

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.

Florida’s longleaf pine forests had nearly disappeared by the 1990s due to clear-cutting for development and farmland. In recent years, state foresters have worked to restore native longleaf ...