Sentences with word «longleaf»

«Before... I hadn't even heard of longleaf pine forests,» Tyrell said.

Today he manages about 4,000 acres of longleaf pine in Mississippi — not for the timber, but for what lies far beneath the woods.

WHO TAKES DEFENSIVE DRIVING SCHOOL ONLINE IN LONGLEAF LOUISIANA?

His students often have over 100 hours of community service during the year with projects ranging from longleaf pine ecosystem restoration to water testing.

HOW DOES DEFENSIVE DRIVING ONLINE IN LONGLEAF Louisiana WORK?

When we pass a burned - over section we see young longleaf pines sending bright green shoots up from their blackened stems, leafing out above the fire line.

Dating site based on looks - Follow us; longleaf elementary school district.

Capital Montgomery Entered Union 1819 (22nd) Origin of name Possibly from a Choctaw Indian word meaning «thicket - clearers» or «vegetation - gatherers» Nickname Yellowhammer State Motto Audemus jura nostra defendere («We dare defend our rights») Residents Alabamian or Alabaman U.S. Representatives 7 State bird yellowhammer State flower camellia State tree Southern longleaf pine State song «Alabama» Land area 50,744 sq. mi.

He saw benevolence and beauty, the tightly knit longleaf pine forests, the undulant riverine corridors of the Chattahoochee, the tantalizing pure light of life reflected on bracts and fronds, the drifting silvery spider silk that takes tiny passengers to new forests.

Natural longleaf pine forests have been replaced in the landscape by development and plantations of loblolly, slash and sand pine.

Support from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has helped anchor one Fire Mentoring Program crew in a priority longleaf pine landscape in southeast Georgia and northeastern Florida.

What's left of the existing longleaf pine range has been degraded by the exclusion of fire.

This book combines memoir and natural history writing, particularly descriptions of the ecology of the South's vanishing longleaf pine forests.

One of the many species affected was the red - cockaded woodpecker, which was on the verge of global extinction, before longleaf restoration efforts and habitat management programs put the species on the road to recovery.

«This restoration has been achieved by working on our public lands but also by working on private lands to plant and manage additional longleaf acres.»

IFCO produces longleaf, loblolly, slash, shortleaf and Virginia pine seedlings as well as wiregrass.

Fields of leathery saw palmettos and stands of longleaf pine trees are pocked with ponds and marshes.

To test the data, University of Tennessee geochemist Claudia Mora and dendrochronologist Henri Grissino - Mayer studied rings from longleaf and slash pines in Valdosta, Georgia.

WHAT IS LONGLEAF Louisiana TRAFFIC SCHOOL?

Venus flytraps are habitat specialists, found only in certain spots of longleaf pine savannas in the Carolinas.

May 2 — Learn about the history and importance of the longleaf pine.

The device has previously come to rest in swamps and rice paddies and tangled itself 60 feet up in a longleaf pine.

Tim Pinkston has built a massive chemistry set in the middle of a longleaf pine forest in eastern Mississippi.

Trees incorporate the depleted oxygen into their cellulose, and the longleaf pine in particular relies heavily on precipitated water, so isotope variations should show up strongly between rings.

Trying to build a better record, she and her colleagues scraped flecks of wood from the rings of longleaf pines, long - lived softwood trees common along the U.S. coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and the south Atlantic.

Only 3 percent of their natural territory, longleaf pines, remains.

Sizable infestations of southern pine beetles have been few and far between since the last major outbreak in 2000 - 2002, when the tiny but voracious creatures caused about $ 1.5 billion in damage in the southeastern United States to loblolly, shortleaf, longleaf, pitch, pond and Virginia pines.

Examples of savanna trees that facilitate frequent low - intensity fires include the longleaf pine and the south Florida slash pine, both of which frequently shed their needles, providing fodder for wildfires.

Meade's friend and neighbor Hilma snipped Roger out of the peanut field with a pair of tiny scissors and transposed him onto two color photographs, so that he seemed to hover, artistically stark in Agrisearch black and white, between two lush springtimes — on the left, the bracken fern and longleaf pine woods on the hillside where his family house had once stood, and on the right, the «Old Blush» in full bloom in his backyard rose garden.

As part of a national seashore encompassing cypress groves, marshlands, longleaf pines and oaks, the trail offers a Florida outdoor experience that's often overshadowed the state's reputation as a beachy paradise with its sandy white shores and crystal - clear waters.

In the forests, fire - hating trees like oak and hickory muscle aside fire - loving species like loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine, which are so dependent on regular burning that their cones will only open and release seed when exposed to flame.

Davis has bought up 54,000 acres of land — mostly from timber companies — and he's restoring it to a longleaf pine forest, which is a rich center of biodiversity.

North Carolina, where I live, is nicknamed the Tar Heel State because of its abundance of longleaf, white and loblolly pine.

Most of the land was purchased from timber companies and he is restoring it to longleaf pine forest — he has planted 8 million seedlings already.

Fire has a renewing quality for longleaf pine trees and the plants and animals that call the longleaf pine forests home.

It's not only the longleaf pine forests that benefit, but also the young people involved.

It used to be that 40 million acres of longleaf pines once covered the South; by the 1930s it was all lost to lumber.

Having evolved with fire, longleaf pine maintains a competitive advantage in the face of burning.

Fire also controls plants that are not as resilient to frequent fire and may invade the longleaf pine forests.

The longleaf pine ecosystem in the United States has shrunk from 90 million acres to just 3.4 million over time.

Much like rain forests must be sustained by rain, longleaf pine is a «fire forest.»

To reverse the degradation of longleaf pine forests, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is partnering with the Student Conservation Association and US Forest Service to recruit and train the «fire starters of tomorrow.»

But this kind of growth wasn't what defined the story of the longleaf pine until recently.

Thanks in part to the efforts of The Longleaf Alliance, the acreage of longleaf pine forests has increased to 4.4 million acres, up from 2.8 million in the 1990s.

«The longleaf ecosystem is growing, and we want to maintain that momentum by expanding markets,» says Robert Abernethy, president of The Longleaf Alliance.