longleaf pine

Release date- 04092019 - From helping preserve and enhance the state's longleaf pine forests and coastal habitat, to supporting protection of rare species such as the red-cockaded woodpecker, Alabama will benefit from multiple grants just announced by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).

The birds are reliant on old-growth longleaf pine to survive, which was once common but now only exists across three percent of its original range.

"Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests" deftly examines at a wide diversity of ecosystems, including spruce-fir, northern deciduous, southern Appalachian deciduous, southern swamp hardwoods, and longleaf pine. The individual chapters are authored by leading old-growth experts examining topics of contemporary forest ecology including forest structure and dynamics, below-ground soil processes, biological diversity, differences between historical and modern forests, carbon and climate change mitigation, management of old growth, and more.

"An example of this is the longleaf pine ecosystem," said Becky Stowe, director of forest programs for the Mississippi Chapter of The Nature Conservancy "This habitat has evolved with fire as a key element of it.

"THERE IS A COMMON LINE that runs through all the work I've been involved in, whether we're trying to protect the climate, water, the Chesapeake Bay, longleaf pine, National Forest lands, or make lands more resilient to fire," Robert Bonnie says.

IMPACTS OF SEVERE DROUGHT ON REMNANT MONTANE LONGLEAF PINE COMMUNITIES AT OAK MOUNTAIN STATE PARK.

Geomys pinetis (southeastern pocket gopher) is a fossorial rodent historically associated with Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) communities characteristic of the Coastal Plain physiographic province in southeastern Alabama, southern Georgia, and northern and central Florida (Golley, 1962; Pembleton and Williams, 1978; Wilkins, 1987).

His dog Poncho was sniffing a hundred yards away, casting for scent along an open longleaf pine ridge at one of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission's coastal game lands.

Longleaf pine Pinus palustris savannas are one of the most biologically diverse systems found in North America containing numerous species of flora and fauna (Alavalapati et al.