But the tree is not just old. It’s old-growth. When the seed first sprouted, longleaf pine covered about 92 million acres of the American South, in a swath from east Texas to Virginia.

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

The pinesnake has disappeared from most of its range as open, old-growth longleaf pine forests have been lost to logging and development. “We absolutely need to protect the longleaf pine forests that ...

And, I have learned, the longleaf pine tree does not usually bear cones until it is 20 to 30 years old. While they may ... bright green distinctive initial growth phase called the “grass stage ...