30 Years of Growing, Understanding & Improving Diverse Ecosystems
December 17, 2025
2025 Highlights from The Longleaf Alliance As The Longleaf Alliance celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2025, we continued to shape our strategic vision for a sustainable future of longleaf pine…
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The Owen Fellowship – $20,000 Award for Longleaf Graduate Research
December 9, 2025
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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Pumpkin Spice and the Power of Partnership: A Gopher Tortoise Story
October 31, 2025
In the new short documentary, A Tortoise Called Pumpkin Spice, viewers meet a tiny survivor with a big mission. Hatched from the egg of a female gopher tortoise tragically killed…
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Wear the Legacy: Limited-Time Longleaf Apparel
September 12, 2025
Shop to Support Longleaf Celebrate the legacy of the longleaf pine and The Longleaf Alliance’s conservation efforts across the Southeast with our exclusive Longleaf Ecosystem apparel, available now through October…
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Devouring Beauties – The Remarkable Pitcherplants
August 26, 2025
Mysterious, captivating, and under threat. Carnivorous pitcherplants take center stage in this short documentary set in the fire-dependent longleaf pine ecosystems of Georgia and Florida. Devouring Beauties explores the hidden…
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Cheers to 30 Years!
July 25, 2025
When Dean Gjerstad and Rhett Johnson co-founded The Longleaf Alliance in 1995, the trajectory of longleaf pines and its associated ecosystems was dire – only fraction of longleaf acreage remained.…
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Poor Longleaf Pine Cone Prospects for 2025
June 11, 2025
Longleaf pine cone production is variable, with infrequent good crops, more so than other southern yellow pine species. The process is influenced by many environmental factors over the course of…
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America’s Longleaf Celebrates 2 Million Acres Restored and 20 Million Acres Burned
June 9, 2025
America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative and the Longleaf Partnership Council are thrilled to celebrate two major milestones achieved in 2024: the restoration of two million acres of longleaf pine through planting and…
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Longleaf Enhancement Fund for Seed & Seedling Production
May 27, 2025
The Longleaf Alliance (TLA) is requesting proposals that will increase the quantity or quality of longleaf pine seed or seedlings to help accelerate the restoration of the longleaf ecosystem. This…
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The Longleaf Alliance Planting Funds
March 3, 2025
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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