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Our 25Th Year of Blazing a Trail for Longleaf Restoration 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 2 Our 25th Year of Blazing a Trail for Longleaf Restoration Volume Xii - issue 4 WiNTeR 2020 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 3 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 14 56 23 44 10 President’s Message....................................................2 LANDOWNER CORNER .......................................23 Calendar ....................................................................4 TECHNOLOGY CORNER .....................................26 Letters from the Inbox ...............................................5 REGIONAL UPDATES .........................................29 Understory Plant Spotlight........................................7 Wildlife Spotlight .....................................................8 ARTS & LITERATURE ........................................40 2019 – A Banner Year for Longleaf ..........................10 Longleaf Destinations ..............................................44 The Alliance Teaches its 100th Longleaf Academy: PEOPLE .................................................................47 A Look Back............................................................14 SUPPORT THE ALLIANCE ................................50 RESEARCH NOTES .............................................18 Heartpine ................................................................56 PUBLISHER The Longleaf Alliance, E D I T O R Carol Denhof, ASSISTANT EDITOR Margaret Platt, DESIGN Bellhouse Publishing ADVERTISING Carol Denhof 678.595.6405 – [email protected] COVER Sun shines through smoke during a sandhill restoration prescribed burn at Townsend Wildlife Management Area in Long County, Georgia. Photo by Randy Tate. The Longleaf Leader (USPS#) is an official publication of The Longleaf Alliance, 12130 Dixon Center Road, Andalusia, Alabama 36420 and is published 4 times a year. The Longleaf Alliance reserves the exclusive right to accept or reject advertising or editorial material submitted for publication. Advertising rates quoted upon request.Postmaster: Send address changes to The Longleaf Alliance, Address12130 Dixon Center Road, Andalusia, Alabama 36420. Periodicals Postage Paid at Montgomery, Alabama. In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, or disability. (Not all prohibited bases will apply to all programs.) To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. [ 1 ] 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 5 president’s message CAROL DENHOF irst, let me say thank you to all that ultimately increasing longleaf forest acreage. Their dedication have reached out with encouragement and work in those early days laid the groundwork for the growth and support as I transition from the role of our education and outreach programs under JJ Bachant- of Understory Coordinator to President. Brown and all of the work that LLA’s team is doing today. This I am both humbled and honored to be early focus on restoration of longleaf pine can also be credited taking over the leadership of The Longleaf Alliance on the eve with the formation of the collaborative working partnerships of the organization’s 25th year of working to bring back the that support the America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative. Flongleaf pine to the southeastern landscape. In this Silver Jubilee The original intent of The Longleaf Alliance continues today. year, we will be taking the time to pause and reflect on not only We have grown in size, the faces have changed, and our initial the accomplishments of The Longleaf Alliance but also the programs have evolved to meet ever-changing longleaf incredible strides that the entire longleaf community has made restoration needs. However, as an organization, we remain in efforts to reach our common longleaf restoration goals. So focused on our mission of ensuring the sustainable future of the much has changed since Rhett Johnson and Dean Gjerstad put longleaf ecosystem through partnerships, landowner assistance, their heads together and formed LLA in 1995 in response to both and science-based education and outreach. Education and the urgent need to halt the decline of longleaf pine ecosystems outreach remain as the cornerstone of our programs, and we and the growing demand for information on how to restore these continue to be the hub of the longleaf partnership wheel that forests. Despite the dominance of the other southern yellow includes state and federal agencies, research institutions, natural pines in the southeastern US, there was an increasing number resource professionals, NGOs, universities, and private of landowners and managers who were beginning to see the landowners. Looking back at this past year, we made an impact appeal of longleaf – superior wood products, wildlife value, and in the areas of outreach, habitat improvement, rare species the diversity of the ecosystem. They just needed the right guides restoration, longleaf restoration, and land protection. Through to help them through the process of successfully establishing our programs, LLA reached nearly 250,000 people using a and managing the species. Mark Hainds joined the team in variety of outreach tools, provided 576 technical assists, assisted 1995 as a Research Associate working through Auburn with burning on over 600,000 acres, restored rare species in University. Mark was instrumental in developing tried & true South Carolina and Florida, and working with our partners techniques for site preparation and planting that truly changed protected over 15,000 acres along the Savannah River. It was a the game for longleaf establishment. A few years later, John great year, and 2020 is going to be even better. Using our McGuire completed the team as the first Outreach Coordinator. mission as a guide, I’m excited to be steering the ship forward Together, this small (but mighty!) group worked extensively into this celebration year and shaping the organization to endure with partners and traveled the region meeting landowners with and thrive for the next 25 years and more! the goal of improving people’s perception of longleaf and [ 2 ] 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 6 Longleaf Alliance Staff Board of Directors Carol Denhof Vernon Compton Jessica Sandoval President GCPEP Director Biological Technician Marc Walley – [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Chairman Ad Platt Bobby Franklin Brian Schumann Reese Thompson – Vice President of Operations SoLoACE Partnership Coordinator Ecosystem Support Senior Team Member Vice Chairman [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Rufus Duncan – Anne Rilling Lucas Furman Kaiden Spurlock Secretary/Treasurer Vice President of Business GIS Support Specialist Ecosystem Support Team Supervisor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Barclay McFadden – Past Chairman Charlie Abeles Kelsea Heider Randy Tate Wildlife Biologist Wetland Ecosystem Support Team Ft. Stewart/Altamaha Longleaf Lynda Guerry Beam [email protected] Member Restoration Partnership Coordinator [email protected] [email protected] Robbie Fisher Robert Abernethy Director of Special Projects Lisa Lord Ben Tuttle Patrick Franklin [email protected] South Carolina Field Project Ecosystem Support Team Member Coordinator and Savannah River [email protected] Amanda Haralson Nicholas Barys Watershed Project Director Wetland Ecosystem Support Team [email protected] Donna Vassallo Ken Nichols Leader Ecosystem Support Senior Team Member [email protected] Joseph Mann [email protected] Bill Owen Wetland Ecosystem Support Team Lynnsey Basala Member Casey White Mickey Parker Development Director [email protected] Administrative Assistant [email protected] [email protected] Mac Rhodes Edward O’Daniels Salem Saloom Ryan Bollinger Cogongrass & Tyndall Project Bob Wilken Local Implementation Team Consul Coordinator Fire Specialist Latimore Smith [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] George Tyson Karen Zilliox Brown Alan Patterson Technical Assistance & Training Wetland Ecosystem Support Team Phillip Woods Specialist Member [email protected] [email protected] [ 3 ] 19005112_Longleaf-Leader-WINTER-2020_rev.qxp_Layout 1 1/9/20 10:44 AM Page 7 UPCOMING EVENTS 2020 | Calendar January 14 - 16 May 12 – 14 October 20 – 23 Longleaf Academy: Longleaf 101 Longleaf Academy: Longleaf 101 13th Biennial Longleaf Conference Blue Heron Nature Center Pee Dee Research & Education Hotel Ballast Ridgeland, South Carolina Center Wilmington, North Carolina Florence, South Carolinaa February 11 - 13 Event dates subject to change Longleaf Academy: Fire & Longleaf 201 July 14 – 16 Tall Timbers Research Station Longleaf Academy: Herbicides & before registration opens. For Tallahassee, Florida Longleaf 201 more information, please visit Cumberland County, The Longleaf Alliance website March TBD North Carolina (https://www.longleafalliance.org).
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