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How fire, people and history shaped the South’s iconic longleaf pine forests

  • Written by Andrea De Stefano, Assistant Professor of Forestry, Mississippi State University
How fire, people and history shaped the South’s iconic longleaf pine forestsA land manager examines young longleaf pines, some in their grassy phase, in a private forest in South Carolina.AP Photo/James Pollard

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas,...

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