- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Longleaf pine ecosystem
- Creator:
- Way, Albert G.
- Date of Original:
- 2006-09-08
- Subject:
- Longleaf pine--Georgia
Ecosystem management--Georgia
Forest management--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the longleaf pine ecosystem. The longleaf pine and grassland forest of the southern Coastal Plain is among the most endangered ecosystems in North America. Its native range once stretched from southern Virginia to east Texas, covering almost 90 million acres. In Georgia its range was roughly below the fall line in the Upper Coastal Plain, though longleaf sometimes flourished across the lower Piedmont as well. Today only 3 million acres across the South contain some longleaf forests, and of that only about 12,000 scattered acres retain an old-growth component with a biologically diverse understory. One study estimates that Georgia maintained more than 4 million acres of longleaf forest in 1936, while just 376,400 acres remained in 1997.
GSE identifier: SS8E2 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/longleaf-pine-ecosystem/
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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