longleaf pine

Torreya State Park and The Nature Conservancy plant over 1.6 million longleaf pine in an effort to restore park land to fire dependent sandhill habitat.

By the Choctawhatchee River, we hike through a recently burned longleaf forest and cross a swamp with dedicated trail volunteers.

We head into the Apalachicola National Forest with Dr. Bruce Means to talk about his favorite animal- the eastern diamondback rattlesnake.

To bring the striped newt back to the Apalachicola National Forest, the Coastal Plains Institute is working with partners, volunteers, and local children.

One of the cutest critters to depend on fire in the longleaf habitat is the gopher tortoise. At Birdsong Nature Center, we learn the value of their burrows.

Jim Cox bands a seven day old red cockaded woodpecker and takes a group of FSU Biology students to a fire dependent, old growth longleaf pine forest.

We witness a Red Hills tradition that has had a large impact on area ecology: The quail hunt. Fire benefits quail and other longleaf dependent species.

We explore habitats in the Red Hills of Florida and Georgia, and the many butterflies that call them home, including the rare Golden-Banded Skipper.

Oberon and Titania’s martial strife has led to ecological upheaval. But what does that have to do with the Henslow’s sparrow and old growth longleaf pine?

We go in search of Chapman’s rhododendron and other rare, fire dependent plants in the St. Joseph Bay State Buffer Preserve.