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The Misconceptions

Myth: It is too difficult to get longleaf pine to survive by artificial regeneration.

Fact: With better seedlings, better planting techniques, and a better understanding of the impact of competing vegetation on seedling growth, landowners today experience many planting successes. On cutover land, most landowners should achieve 90% survival or better!

Myth: Longleaf pine is a slow-grower.

Fact: If the time spent in the grass-stage is minimized, early growth of longleaf pine rivals that of other southern pine species in many cases. In fact, longleaf pine has the ability to make up for a slow start by more rapid growth later on. On some sites, longleaf pine may, in fact, grow faster than other pines.

Myth: Longleaf pine cannot economically compete with loblolly or slash pines.

Fact: Many lumber companies and landowners have made their living exclusively by growing longleaf pine. Many hunting plantations strive to achieve the appearance of open and park-like longleaf pine forests because it enhances the aesthetics of the hunt (translating into higher revenue). Current markets make longleaf management more attractive than ever.

Myth: Longleaf forests do not make good wildlife habitat due to the scarcity of oaks.

Fact: Longleaf forests and the ability to use fire within these forests provides ideal habitat for a whole suite of game and nongame wildlife.

Myth: You should not allow a longleaf forest to mature due to the potential of "infestation" by red-cockaded woodpeckers.

Fact #1: Today’s populations of red-cockaded woodpeckers are most often confined to large isolated public landholdings. The probability that a pair of red-cockaded woodpeckers (RCW) can successfully navigate the sea of open and urban land to find an individual landowner’s property is slim.

Fact #2: Provisions (like the Safe-Harbor agreement) are in place to help minimize the disincentive of managing a forest that would also make attractive red-cockaded woodpecker habitat.

Fact #3: Red-cockaded woodpeckers will become established in mature loblolly pine about a generation sooner than they would longleaf pine.

Fact #4: If woodpeckers were “easy to get,” they wouldn’t be on the Endangered Species List! Americans are spending thousands and even millions of dollars to try to establish woodpeckers deliberately, with mixed success. It is highly unlikely that a landowner who didn’t want RCWs would attract them.

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🎉BIG NEWS🎉 The Longleaf Alliance's website h 🎉BIG NEWS🎉 The Longleaf Alliance's website has a whole new look! Explore LongleafAlliance.org and help us celebrate by sharing it (link in our bio). Happy browsing!
Did you know? National Invasive Species Awareness Did you know? National Invasive Species Awareness Week wraps up this weekend! What better way to participate in #NISAW than to raise your own awareness about the invasives species on your property and make a plan to address the problem. Let us know if we can help > https://longleafalliance.org/contact

📷 Recognizing the threat posed by the Chinese tallow tree, the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership (GCPEP) identified control of this and other invasive species as a high priority.  Thanks to a State Wildlife Grant and support from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Longleaf Alliance (TLA) staff have located and treated over 7,000 Chinese tallow trees within the Florida portion of the Yellow River watershed, with more work needed for successful control in the GCPEP landscape. Pictured here is TLA's Kaiden Spurlock cutting a Chinese tallow tree; after cutting the stump was treated with herbicide. Photo by Vernon Compton.
#LongleafPine forests have been burning for millen #LongleafPine forests have been burning for millennia. To all of our benefit. Before there were houses or roads, lightning and indigenous people started fires that naturally stopped at rivers or wetlands. These fires removed overgrowth that, if left to build up, became fuel for wildfire, threatened native plant species and damaged wildlife habitats. Today, we use prescribed fire to get these same benefits. #resotrelongleaf #longleaf #longleafpines #goodfire

📷 Carvers Creek State Park. Photo by @mt.walker
We are thrilled to announce a NEW #PrescribedFire We are thrilled to announce a NEW #PrescribedFire Pilot Project in partnership with the Georgia Sentinel Landscape (GSL), which aims to coordinate conservation priorities across the landscape that benefit natural resources as well as national defense. Managing and maintaining healthy forestlands in Georgia benefits wildlife habitat and at-risk species while simultaneously strengthening Georgia’s rural economies and military installations. This project will increase prescribed burning within the GSL by 35,000 acres by providing technical and financial resources to private landowners who are interested in implementing prescribed burning, installing firebreaks, and obtaining burn plans.

We are equally thrilled to have Susan French join The Longleaf Alliance (TLA) staff as Georgia Sentinel Landscape Pilot Project Coordinator to lead this exciting effort. Before joining TLA, Susan worked as a wildlife biologist for the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, focusing on providing technical assistance to private landowners. She is a Certified Prescribed Fire Manager in South Carolina and holds a B.S. in Wildlife Ecology & Management from Auburn University and a M.S. in Wildlife & Fisheries Biology from Clemson University.

Read more about the project on our website under News! Link in our bio.

#goodfire #restorelongleaf #longleaf #longleafpine #lonlgeafpines
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