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.
Material type: TextPublication 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)
- SD397.P59 L65 2012
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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.