Looking for Longleaf The Fall and Rise of an American Forest

Name: Looking for Longleaf The Fall and Rise of an American Forest
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ISBN: 9780807856994

ISBN-10: 0807856991

ISBN-13: 9780807856994

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lawrence S. Earley

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Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse ecosystems in North America. Today these magnificent forests have declined to a fraction of their original extent, threatening such species as the gopher tortoise, the red-cockaded woodpecker, and the Venus fly-trap. Conservationists have proclaimed longleaf restoration a major goal, but has it come too late? InLooking for Longleaf, Lawrence S. Earley explores the history of these forests and the astonishing biodiversity of the longleaf ecosystem, drawing on extensive research and telling the story through first-person travel accounts and…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/27/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Lawrence S. Earley, former editor of Wildlife in North Carolina magazine, is a writer and photographer living in Raleigh, North Carolina.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Land of the Longleaf Pine



Ecology



What Bartram Saw



Fire in the Cathedral



A Wondrous Diversity



Webs of Life



Exploitation



Piney Woods People



Tar Kilns and Tar Heels



Getting Turpentine



A Reckless Destruction



Assault on the Southern Pines



Forest Management



Forestry Practice and Malpractice



Health, Quail, and Fire



Fools for Longleaf



Ecosystem Restoration



Woodpeckers and Forests



Restoring an Ecosystem


Epilogue: A Presence on the Land?


Notes


Bibliography


Index