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Old growth longleaf pine stand, scorched by fire (top); longleaf pine stand after timber removal (bottom) Before European settlement, longleaf pine forest dominated as much as 90,000,000 acres (360,000 km 2) stretching from Virginia south to Florida and west to East Texas. Its range was defined by the frequent widespread fires that were lit by ...
[5] [6]: 5–6 Small living quarters such as log cabins were built using longleaf pine logs. As the tree made good lumber it was soon being exported. [3] [8] Longleaf pine resin was extracted for production of naval stores. To obtain the resin from the live longleaf pine, pioneers first cut and removed wood exposing a deep cavity, called a box ...
There was an immense expanse of longleaf pine, stretching from Virginia, southwest through nine U.S. States, ending in east Texas, and covering more than 140,000 square miles (363,000 square kilometers). [1] Longleaf pine was the major species of interest to southern lumbermen due to its straightness and durability from a high resin content.
The English colonists harvested the longleaf pine lumber, finding many uses for it. The slow-maturing tall straight trees were particularly suitable for shipbuilding and masts, although the lumber and pitch were widely used. The keel of USS Constitution was made from a single longleaf pine log.
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine is granted by the Governor of North Carolina and is the state's highest civilian honor. [1] Although the award was first given in 1964, records of recipients were not kept until 1983. [1] Following is a partial list of its recipients. [2] [1]
Burning to manage wildlife habitat did continue and was a common practice by 1950. Longleaf pine dominated the coastal plains until the early 1900s, where loblolly and slash pines now dominate. [10] At low altitudes in the Rocky Mountain region, large areas of Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir had an open park-like structure until the 1900s.
Stoddard stands among a stand of old-growth longleaf pine. Herbert Lee Stoddard (February 24, 1889 – November 15, 1970) [1] was an American naturalist, conservationist, forester, wildlife biologist, ecologist, ornithologist, taxidermist, and author. [2]
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.