Fire is a critical tool in the management of longleaf pine habitat, said foundation CEO Andrew Bridges. His team planned to burn several parcels of restored longleaf pine habitat on an exceedingly ...

The crush of development, along with the region’s long history of logging and fire suppression, have destroyed 97 percent of the Southeast’s longleaf pine habitat. The almost complete loss of ...

Urbanization, agriculture, forest conversion due to logging, and suppression of natural fires have degraded the vast majority of longleaf pine forests. Development also exposes snakes to being run ...

Those efforts will include restoration of longleaf pine forests that provide critical salamander habitat. Longleaf pine restoration will also benefit hundreds of other species across the region. “We ...

"We are trying with the project to preserve and protect the long leaf pine ecosystem and preserve the habitat-specific good for the salamander." The reticulated flatwoods salamander once thrived ...

In exchange for the state forest land, the district would receive roughly 550 acres of Lee Peanut Farms LLC’s farmland along ...