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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
imageA 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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