Longleaf pine was the dominant tree species in the Southeast when Europeans arrived in the New World. Its range covered more than 90 million acres from Virginia to Florida and then west to Texas.

Yazoo County Road Manager Jim Warrington told county leaders its time to address the abundance of dead pine trees within the ...

THE old system of boring long-leaf pine trees for the purpose of collecting ... through with the job fully one-half of the trees are invariably dead, all are fire scarred, and those which remain ...

Unlike other woodpeckers, that live in dead trees, the red-cockaded calls longleaf pine forests home and burrows into pine trees that are still alive and thriving, normally aged between 60-80 years.

Trees grew taller, sprouting new needles and dropping their dead ones, propelling the growth cycle forward. Seminole and Calusa tribes used pine needles to weave baskets, longleaf’s namesake ...

A single straw harvest removes between five and 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre and between 0.5 and five pounds of phosphorus ...