Dusky gopher frogs spend most of their lives underground, in burrows created by gopher tortoises — hence their name — and other animals ... to the forested, longleaf-pine uplands. But 98 percent of ...

The Friends of Weymouth Woods hosted a celebration of the world’s oldest longleaf pine on Saturday, April 5, at this year’s ...

Those efforts will include restoration of longleaf pine forests that provide critical salamander habitat ... pine-slash pine flatwoods in the lower southeastern coastal plain. The animals spend most ...

These rattlesnakes inhabit upland areas with open canopies, favoring longleaf pine forests, sandhills, clay hills, and flatwoods. They are also found on barrier islands and in interdune meadows ...

Mandatory Credit: Katie Goodale - Augusta Chronicle/USA TODAY NETWORK The decline of longleaf pine forests in the Southeast, which have been reduced from 90 million acres to 5.2 million acres.