The highest honor a citizen of North Carolina can receive from the governor is the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. This award is granted to distinguished North Carolinians who ...

Longleaf pine was the dominant tree species in the Southeast when Europeans arrived in the New World. Its range covered more than 90 million acres from Virginia to Florida and then west to Texas.

THE old system of boring long-leaf pine trees for the purpose of collecting turpentine is the most wasteful and destructive method that has ever been used. It is not only the most expensive from ...

Thompson tiptoes to a longleaf pine with a white ring painted around its trunk, the mark of a nesting tree. He raises something like a butterfly net attached to an extendable pole, slowly ...

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

Pine producers looking to diversify their streams of revenue have a "gimme": the dead needles that cover the forest floor.

Stan Tekiela recounts his search for Florida’s elusive Sherman’s fox squirrel, highlighting its habitat, behavior, and ...

Trees grew taller, sprouting new needles and dropping their dead ones, propelling the growth cycle forward. Seminole and Calusa tribes used pine needles to weave baskets, longleaf’s namesake ...