A recently published study in the journal BioScience reveals that endangered longleaf pine ecosystems—among North America's most biodiverse habitats—face mounting threats from intensifying hurricane ...

Before Europeans arrived in America, longleaf pine savannas sprawled across 90 million acres from present-day Florida to Texas and Virginia. Today, thanks to human impacts, less than 3 percent of ...

MADISON -- Before Europeans arrived in America, longleaf pine savannas sprawled across 90 million acres from present-day Florida to Texas and Virginia. Today, thanks to human impacts, less than 3 ...

Pine savannas thrive because every plant plays a role in the ecosystem. In the same way, our gardens can become more than decorative, they can serve pollinators, filter stormwater, ...

Sept. 27 (UPI) --Efforts to restore and reconnect isolated patches of pine savanna in South Carolina is paying off.The nearly-two-decade project has yielded an increase in the number of plant ...

Longleaf pine savanna dominated portions of the southeastern United States prior to the arrival of Europeans. This biodiversity hotspot once spanned some 90 million acres but has largely vanished.

Native Americans had long managed the longleaf pine savanna with periodic burns, supplementing the low-intensity wildfires that were already part of, and essential to, the ecosystem’s health.

While we may not have towering, snow-covered mountains of the West or the rocky shores of the Pacific, I think it is a valid argument that the landscape here in ...

The proposed project would restore a jack pine savanna and remove invasive buckthorn. The site is located on the east side of the original 60-acre Mississippi River Overlook Park.

Longleaf pine savanna dwindled to a low point of 3 million acres in the southeast U.S. as pressure from humans destroyed or degraded what environmentalists say is a critically important wetland.

On 486 acres targeted for an oak savanna restoration, work will continue into 2017 as crews remove non-native pine plantations, thin red oak stands, ...