
Ensuring a sustainable future for the longleaf pine ecosystem
The Longleaf Alliance works throughout the Southeast U.S. to guide longleaf restoration, stewardship, and conservation using science-based outreach, partnership engagement, and on-the-ground assistance.
What's New?

The Owen Fellowship – $20,000 Award for Longleaf Graduate Research
April 1, 2023
Now in its second round, The Owen Fellowship of The Longleaf Alliance is a two-year program offered in conjunction with the Biennial Longleaf Conference. The Owen Fellowship aims to advance…
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The Longleaf Alliance Planting Funds
February 6, 2023
Because of the tremendous public benefits that flow from healthy private forests, many incentives (including “cost-share”) exist to encourage landowners to plant, grow and manage forests. This is especially true…
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Welcoming Wildlife Into Our Landscapes – Coastal WildScapes 13th Annual Symposium
April 13, 2023
The 13th Annual Coastal WildScapes Symposium was held at the Richmond Hill City Center in Richmond Hill, Georgia. The theme “Welcoming Wildlife Into Our Landscapes” attracted 81 participants for the…
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Learning While Burning
March 30, 2023
Learn & Burn workshops provide landowners with hands-on prescribed fire opportunities while also networking with others in their communities who utilize prescribed burning to manage their woodlands. What is a…
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Pints for Pines – Bringing Back Longleaf in North Carolina
March 24, 2023
The Longleaf Alliance loved celebrating with new and old friends at the Pints for Pines Longleaf Planting day at Cotton Creek Preserve on March 13, 2023. More than 30 volunteers…
Read MoreWhat is Longleaf?
John Gould Curtis described longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Miller) as the "pride of the south." He stated, "the longleaf pine tree would probably not be considered very beautiful with its long, scaly trunk and rather scraggly branches, but a whole forest of tall, straight poles canopied over with dark green plumes of long, shaky needles is most attractive and majestic." We would tend to agree that there are few places in the world that are as beautiful as a forest of longleaf pines.
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Groundcover Restoration Academy
Jun 6, 2023 - Jun 8, 2023
Landowner Longleaf Restoration Field Day
Jun 6, 2023 - Jun 6, 2023
