2020 Range-wide Longleaf Accomplishments
July 7, 2021
America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative (ALRI) released its 2020 Range-wide Accomplishment Report celebrating a decade’s worth of accomplishments and significant progress towards restoring longleaf pine. Despite a turbulent 2020, ALRI’s dedicated partners proved resilient and recorded over 1.9 million acres of accomplishments ranging from new longleaf establishment, prescribed burning, land protection, and maintenance activities. Read the full report HERE.…
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Thriving on Fire – The Resiliency of Longleaf
April 19, 2021
The Longleaf Alliance collaborated with partners from the Longleaf Partnership Council (LPC) on a new factsheet, Thriving on Fire: The Resilient Longleaf Pine, to communicate the tree’s unique tolerance to fire and the benefits of using prescribed burning as a forest management practice. This fire resiliency factsheet is the third in a series from the…
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A Guided Tour of Alabama’s Longleaf
April 2, 2021
Alabama’s original forests were very different from what we see today – dominated in much of the state by vast expanses of longleaf pine forests and their unique and desirable plant and animal species. In every region of the longleaf range, these forests were largely consumed during our development as a nation. What older timber…
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New Fire Mapping Tool Released – SE FireMap
March 30, 2021
The USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) unveiled the new Southeast FireMap, a fire mapping tool for the Southeastern United States that enables resource managers to improve their regional or local approaches to managing wildfire risk and fire management needs through targeted prescribed burns and training. Fire management helps improve forest ecosystem health, increases timber values,…
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Invasive Cogongrass – Hidden in Plain Sight
March 18, 2021
Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica) is labeled as one of the ten WORST weeds in the world, and it’s ravaging many Southeastern states. This invasive grass can invade ecosystems like our favorite longleaf pine and cost landowners massive amounts of money. Wild Wander devoted an entire episode to investigate how bad cogongrass can get and what we…
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Restoring a Longleaf Forest for the Future
March 12, 2021
Terence Hassan is a landowner with family land in Williamsburg County, SC. After returning to the property he left as a child, it wasn’t as he remembered it. He reached out the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service for assistance and to better understand what opportunities were available for restoring his property. With NRCS’s help and…
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Guiding Longleaf Restoration for 25 years
October 30, 2020
The Longleaf Alliance was formed in 1995 by Rhett Johnson and Dean Gjerstad in response to the urgent need to halt the decline of longleaf pine ecosystems, and to meet the growing demand for information on how to restore these forests. The Longleaf Alliance’s role within the longleaf community has expanded over the years, but…
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Advantages of Longleaf Pine in Wind Storms
June 12, 2020
The Longleaf Alliance collaborated with Clemson University and partners from the Longleaf Partnership Council (LPC) on a new factsheet, Blowing in the Wind: Advantages of Longleaf Pine in Wind Storms to communicate the benefits of longleaf pine during windstorms such as hurricanes and tornadoes. This windstorm factsheet is the second in a series from the…
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