Dig deeper into the history, ecology, and culture of longleaf pine ecosystems with these resources.
Books
The Forest That Fire Made: An Introduction to the Longleaf Pine Forest
John McGuire, Carol Denhof and Byron Levan
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
Arvis Locklear Boughman, Loretta O. Oxendine
Forgotten Grasslands of the South
Reed Noss
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region
Bruce A. Sorrie
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Painting the Landscape With Fire: Longleaf Pines and Fire Ecology
Den Latham
Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
Lawrence S. Earley
Longneedle
Anne Marshall Runyon
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See
Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, John C. Hall
Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast
Laura Cotterman, Damon Waitt, Alan Weakley
Video
Preserving North Carolina’s Longleaf Pine Trees with Earl Ijames
Web Resources
Range-wide conservation plan for longleaf pine (2025-2040)
America’s Longleaf
The Longleaf Leader: Past Issues
The Longleaf Alliance
Naval stores: A history of an early industry created from the South’s forests
James P. Barnett
North Carolina Longleaf Coalition Website
N.C. Longleaf Coalition
Pulp Road Wildfire StoryMap
The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina
Sweet Home Carolinas: Using remote sensing to identify suitable habitat for the Venus flytrap
NASA Develop
Flora of the Southeastern United States: Web App
NCBG Herbarium
News Articles & Stories
Longleaf Pine Restoration—a Major Climate Effort in the South—Curbs Its Ambitions to Meet Harsh Realities
Marianne Lavelle, and Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Dennis Pillion of AL.com
A US pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a ‘fire culture’ to boost its range
James Pollard
North Carolina and the Turpentine Trail
David Cecelski
Academic Journal Articles
Conservation of the Endangered Pinus palustris Ecosystem Based on Coastal Plain Centres of Plant Endemism
Bruce A. Sorrie, Alan S. Weakley
Climate Change in the Lumbee River Watershed and Potential Impacts on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Ryan Emanuel
The impact of Hurricane Michael on longleaf pine habitats in Florida
Nicole Zampieri et al
The effects of fire, climate, and species composition on longleaf pine stand structure and growth rates across diverse natural communities in Florida
Nicole E. Zampieri, Stephanie Pau
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