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Education & Outreach

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Next Generation

Children all over the United States are often more knowledgeable about tropical rainforests and other distant habitats than those in their own backyards – even for an ecosystem like longleaf pine, which is as rich in plants and animals as most tropical rainforests and equally in peril.

The study of the longleaf pine ecosystem presents an opportunity to understand important biological concepts, the cultural history and modern conservation issues of a large portion of the southeastern United States. Environmental education is a powerful tool we can use to raise awareness, increase engagement, and grow a love for longleaf across the range.

The Longleaf Alliance’s educational series, Learning with Longleaf, highlights the natural and cultural history of longleaf pine ecosystems. Illustrations by Patrick Elliott accompany each topic and double as coloring sheets.

Download - Learning With Longleaf

More educational resources from The Alliance:

Burner Bob® - Longleaf pine's prescribed fire advocate and mascot is a Bobwhite Quail.

Longleaf Ecosystem Print - This large-scale, ecosystem level drawing, illustrated by Patrick Elliott of Tallahassee, FL, depicts many of the plants and animals found in the longleaf pine forest and includes a black and white coded key. A "Teacher set" is available for purchase - see our merchandise page for details.

Tumbling Longleaf Ecosystem - an oversized Jenga®-like activity with color-coded blocks representing components of the longleaf ecosystem – longleaf pines, groundcover plants, wildlife, and fire – to interactively demonstrate the role of fire.

Longleaf children's books:

Kingdom of Longleaf by Frances Kwiatkowski

Longleaf by Roger Reid

Longneedle by Ann Runyon

The Story of Pinus Palustris by Margarate Shearin Cumberland

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The Longleaf Alliance is excited to introduce our The Longleaf Alliance is excited to introduce our new field team assisting the reticulated flatwoods salamander project on Escribano Point Widllife Management Area in Florida 🎉🥳🎉The Ambystoma bishopi (AMBBIS) Restoration Team, or A.R.T. for short, will be part of the greater AMBBIS team and primarily work on wetland restoration goals for the reticulated flatwoods salamander.This full-time team consists of all returning staff: Haley Welshoff, ART crew lead, and biological restoration technicians Abe Huang, Kameron Burgess, and Sean Seid. These veteran team members have certainly gotten wetland restoration down to an ART-formMore at https://longleafalliance.org/welcome-art/#WorldWetlandsDay #RestoreWetlands #longleafalliance
Last week, The Longleaf Alliance and @nationalwild Last week, The Longleaf Alliance and @nationalwildlife introduced a new Academy type – Longleaf & the Landowner.We were thrilled to work with the 2022 Gjerstad/Johnston Landowner of the Year award winner, Herbert Hodges and the Willie Hodges Estate Family Farm, who opened the doors to the farm that has been in the family since the 1890s to hold the 3-day event.The course was designed with underserved landowners and land stewards in mind.  The ~40 attendees learned about site preparation, longleaf and fire, planting techniques, managing for wildlife habitat, a historical perspective on black land loss and retention in the South, heirs property concerns, and connecting with resources to guide a landowner through the myriad of cost-share programs and other types of assistance and guidance available. Academy graduates completed the week with palpable enthusiasm to continue learning, and we look forward to working with partners around the range to bring this program, and ones like it, to additional communities in the longleaf range!We couldn’t have done this without the expertise provided by our partners: the U.S. Forest Service - @gatrees - @georgiawildlife - Natural Resources Conservation Service - Georgia Heirs Property Law Center - Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation - @thetrcp - @mcintoshseed - and the Longleaf for All working group under America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative. Read more about the Hodges > https://longleaf.info/Hodges#LongleafAcademy #LongleafForAll #LongleafLandowner #restorelongleaf
We are pumped to share that there are even MORE op We are pumped to share that there are even MORE opportunities to learn about and see prescribed fire in action coming up in Georgia. Sign for one (or mulitple events!!!!) that work for your location and schedule.🔥 Swainsboro, GA | Week of Feb 7th > https://longleaf.info/Swainsboro🔥 Milford, GA | Feb 25th, rain date March 4th > https://longleaf.info/Milford🔥 Baxley, GA | March 3rd, rain date March 10th > https://longleaf.info/events🔥 Waynesboro, GA | March 17th, rain date March 24th > https://longleaf.info/events
In 2018, The Alliance's Wetland Ecosystem Support In 2018, The Alliance's Wetland Ecosystem Support Team (WEST) formed to restore isolated wetlands in the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership (GCPEP). Since then we've had 15+ team members improve wetlands with mechanical/chemical treatments and prescribed fire, working through very demanding weather and habitat conditions.December 2022 marked a milestone as WEST completed their final multi-year Florida State Wildlife Grant, far exceeding grant deliverables in all areas. WEST's work benefitted many wildlife species, but especially the reticulated flatwoods salamander and the Florida bog frog. From 2018-2022, WEST was the under direction of The Alliance's Natural Resource Supervisor Kaiden Spurlock with many staff playing a role over the years, including team leads Jessica Sandoval, Ed O'Daniels, Nicole Barys and Kameron Burgess.Thank you WEST for your hard work and lasting impact on the GCPEP landscape. 👏👏👏Check out more WEST photos through the years at longleafalliance.org > news (link in bio) P.S. Stay tuned for more TLA field team news this week!#longleafalliance #prescribedburn #goodfire #prescribedfire #restorelongleaf #restorewetlands
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