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The Southern Pine Ecology and Management Research Work Unit (SRS-RWU-4159), headquartered on the University of Arkansas campus at Monticello, Arkansas, continues a tradition of research on plants, wildlife, and soils in pine-dominated forests of the southeastern United States. Our emphasis is on mixed loblolly-shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the West Gulf Coastal Plain in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and the shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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Workshop on Shortleaf Pine in the Southern Appalachians
On March 3 and 4, 2020, about 25 silviculturists, foresters, fire management officers, timber specialists, and other USDA Forest Service experts gathered for a two-day workshop on shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata). In the southern Appalachians, shortleaf pine restoration is a major priority for national forests and others. The species has an extensive range but its acreage has declined by more than half over the past few decades.
Latest Publications
- Naval stores: A history of an early industry created from the South's forests
Barnett, James P. - Correlates of snake entanglement in erosion control blankets
Ebert, Sarah E.; Jobe, Kasey L.; Schalk, Christopher M.; Saenz, Daniel ; Adams, Cory K.; Comer, Christopher E. - Silvicultural options in forests of the southern United States under changing climatic conditions
Guldin, James M. - Restoration of native fire-adapted southern pine-dominated forest ecosystems: diversifying the tools in the silvicultural toolbox
Guldin, James M. - Potential of natural-origin loblolly pine tree fractions as a bioenergy feedstock
Mandalika, A. ; Bragg, D. ; Schuler, J. ; Baker, D. ; Elder, T. ; Groom, L.