Gretchen and I burned some woods the last couple days. Here’s why we burn: longleaf pine unharmed, while small trees of other species (slash and loblolly pine, an especially oaks) are weeded out by the fire.
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Longest
With pine trees.
Longleaf and other pines.
Fall in south Georgia:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms,
Lowndes County, Georgia, 5 October 2013.
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Rainbow and longleaf pines in the sunshine:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 July 2013.
Terry Davis saw it first.
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Luna trees:
Picture by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 16 May 2013.
Actually, I think that’s a slash pine on the right.
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http://e360.yale.edu/feature/in_us_midwest_restoring_native_prairie_ecosystems_kessler/2603/
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