Federal grants totaling nearly $3 million will help restore Georgia's longleaf pine forests, including a $1.5 million project ...

WEOGUFKA, Ala.—At first glance, the oldest known tree in Alabama doesn’t look like much. If anything, it seems a bit like a 40-foot version of Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, sparse branches twisting ...

Remaking a forest requires a lot of seeds, and in 2025 things were starting to look dire as the longleaf pine seed supply dwindled across the Southeast. The U.S. Forest Service published its annual ...

The longleaf pine is truly the tree of life. Few trees are as essential to all forms of life beneath them, those of shell, ...

The benefits of prescribed fire in the Southern “pineywoods” are many and varied—and because of the passion of folks who love and believe in these legal and carefully-planned controlled fires and ...

Flames crackle as Hunter Hutchinson maneuvers his torch along the edge of the woods, intentionally igniting a fire to allow a return of the long-lost past. “The fire helps to reclaim these areas,” ...

Established in 2003 on about 9,000 acres on the site of the Army’s now closed Fort McClellan, the Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge helps protect and showcase a unique forest ecosystem. In ...

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The longleaf pine tree might not be as iconic a sight to current generations of Louisianans as it was to their ancestors, but the species has a long, important history in our area and elsewhere in the ...