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Longleaf, far as the eye can see : a new vision of North America's richest forest /

Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and have come to define the southern forest. But a complex web of factors has reduced those forests so that...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Finch, Bill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Longleaf pine > Southern States.
Forest management > Southern States.
Forest ecology > Southern States.
Forest conservation > Southern States.
Forest restoration > Southern States.
Southern States > Environmental conditions.
Forestry.
Southeastern United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The legend
  • Where people came to heal and play
  • A most peculiar entertainment
  • The tree
  • How to know you're standing under longleaf
  • The prometheus pine
  • The forest
  • Tigers of the bog
  • A very old woodpecker has the last word on fire
  • The range
  • In defense of our country
  • Fire and rain
  • The future
  • Where city meets forest: gardens made by longleaf
  • Making fire possible again
  • Epilogue: longleaf's future starts here