Longleaf

For forest species such as longleaf pine, higher CO2 levels improve water use efficiency, which may improve drought tolerance, by causing leaf pores or stomates to stay partially closed longer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ronnie's boss had sent him over to clear out some of the thick yaupon and gall berry bushes around the house to give our longleaf pines a fighting chance. ❋ Elizabeth Westmark (2011)

Since 2004, a partnership between NFWF and Southern Company, the Longleaf Legacy Program, has invested over $8.7 million into projects that will restore more than 82,000 acres of longleaf pine forest and the native species that rely on it. ❋ Mike Smith (2011)

The longleaf pine ecosystem once encompassed more than 90 million acres of North America. ❋ Mike Smith (2011)

Two of the additional objectives of the legacy program for longleaf pine are national defense and involvement of farmers and foresters. ❋ Mike Smith (2011)

The last time, I left Remagen just days before the unit was scheduled to return home, to the longleaf pine forests of Fort Stewart, Georgia. ❋ Anna Badkhen (2010)

Forest cover in the region, once dominated by longleaf pine in the Carolinas, is now mostly loblolly and some shortleaf pine, with patches of oak, gum, and cypress near major streams, as compared to the mainly longleaf-slash pine forests of the warmer Southern Coastal Plain (75). ❋ Unknown (2009)

On drier sites, turkey oak and blackjack oak grow with longleaf pine and a wiregrass ground cover. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Natural vegetation was predominantly longleaf pine, with smaller areas of oak-hickory-pine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over the past three centuries, naval stores or pine tar production, logging, open range cattle and feral hog grazing, agriculture, and fire suppression removed almost all of the longleaf pine forests. ❋ Unknown (2009)

•Upland vegetation cover is predominantly loblolly-shortleaf pine forests; it contrasts with longleaf-slash pine forests of the warmer Southern Coastal Plain (75) and the pine barrens of Ecoregion 84b. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The upland pine community was mostly longleaf pine along with sweetgum, white oak, southern red oak, willow oak, blackgum, and hollies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Much of the sandy coastal region of the Southeastern United States is covered by second-growth forests of longleaf, loblolly, and slash pines. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Natural vegetation was predominantly longleaf pine, with smaller areas of oak-hickory-pine and Southern mixed forest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although similar to 63h, the Mid-Atlantic Flatwoods historically had a lower frequency of fire, less longleaf pine, and a different mix of grasses than in 63h. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the absence of fire, longleaf pine and its associated plants and animals, some of which are rare and occur only in longleaf pine ecosystems, are replaced by other species. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"That longleaf is [dank]!" ❋ IiIii (2013)