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Longleaf, far as the eye can see : a new vision of North America's richest forest / Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, & John C. Hall; foreword by E.O. Wilson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012.Description: x, 176 p. : col. ill. ; 27 x 32 cmISBN:
  • 9780807835753 (cloth: alk. paper)
  • 0807835757 (cloth: alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SD397.P59 L65 2012
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 -- Fire and Rain -- In Defense of Our Country -- The Future -- Where City Meets Forest : Gardens Made by Longleaf -- Making Fire Possible Again -- Epilogue: Longleaf's Future Starts Here.
Summary: 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 longleaf is now found only on 3 million acres. Fortunately, longleaf forests are once again spreading across the South. This book invites readers to experience the astounding beauty and significance of the majestic longleaf ecosystem.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.

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 -- Fire and Rain -- In Defense of Our Country -- The Future -- Where City Meets Forest : Gardens Made by Longleaf -- Making Fire Possible Again -- Epilogue: Longleaf's Future Starts Here.

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 longleaf is now found only on 3 million acres. Fortunately, longleaf forests are once again spreading across the South. This book invites readers to experience the astounding beauty and significance of the majestic longleaf ecosystem.

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