Restoration & Management
The ultimate goal of The Longleaf Alliance is to ensure that longleaf pine becomes a significant component in the Southern forest once more; contributing all of the functions and processes that make longleaf forests unique.
Interested landowners face two distinct, but related tasks, in their efforts to restore longleaf to their lands:
Longleaf restoration is a long-term effort, aided by our primary management tool - prescribed fire.
Georgia's Interagency Burn Team conducting a prescribed burn at The Nature Conservancy's Broxton Rocks Preserve in Coffee County, GA. Photo by Randy Tate.
A seed harvester, or flail vac, is crucial in gathering sufficient native seed to conduct native groundcover restoration at scale. Carvers Creek State Park, NC. Photo by Thomas Crate.
Following a site prep burn, longleaf seedlings were planted at the Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve in Telfair County, GA. Photo by Jacob Barrett.
An American Kestrel nest box, bring installed at the Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve, will help this decling native falcon rebound. Photo by Jacob Barrett.
An Orianne Society fire tech lays down a line of fire pulling nicely off the firebreak. Photo by Randy Tate.