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The longleaf pine is the official state tree of Alabama. [30] It is referenced by name in the first line of the official North Carolina State Toast . [ 5 ] [ 31 ] Also, the state's highest honor is named the " Order of the Long Leaf Pine ".
The Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge is a 9,016-acre (36 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in northeastern Alabama near the city of Anniston on the former site of Fort McClellan. Its name comes from some of the last remaining montane longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem in the southeastern United States which the refuge ...
The longleaf pine ecosystem is a temperate coniferous forest ecosystem found within the Southern United States. Spanning pine savannas, sandhills and montane forests, it includes many rare plant and animal species, and is one of the most biodiverse in North America. [1] Once one of the largest ecosystems in North America, from Virginia south to ...
The Conecuh Trail winds 20 miles (30 km) through Alabama's coastal plain. The trail was built by the Youth Conservation Corps. Each year, beginning in 1976, the young people of the Corps extend the trail through park-like longleaf pine stands, hardwood bottomlands, and other plant communities of the Conecuh National Forest.
The longleaf pine is the official state tree of Alabama. [4] Large forests of the pine once were present along the southeastern Atlantic coast and Gulf Coast of North America, as part of the eastern savannas. [5] These forests were the source of naval stores - resin, turpentine, and timber. [6] The longleaf pine at Geneva State Forest is ...
Overgrowth shades and stunts longleaf pine seedlings, undergrowth increases, and succession creates the southern mixed hardwood forest where savanna used to be. Intentional use of fire to manage vegetation began to be accepted again after World War II, and at present about 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km 2 ) a year are burned.
State federal district or territory Common name Scientific name Image Year Alabama: Longleaf pine: Pinus palustris: 1949 clarified 1997 [1]: Alaska: Sitka spruce: Picea sitchensis
These are woodlands dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and subject to frequent fires.The Atlantic coastal plain upland longleaf pine woodlands occur on uplands and on the higher parts of upland-wetland mosaics, while the east Gulf coastal plain interior upland longleaf pine woodlands occur on rolling dissected uplands, inland of the coastal flatlands.