{"id":442,"date":"2010-05-29T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/looking-for-longleaf.html"},"modified":"2010-05-29T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T03:14:08","slug":"looking-for-longleaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/looking-for-longleaf.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Longleaf"},"content":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;ve read <a href=\"\">\nJanisse Ray&#8217;s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood<\/a>\nand you want to know more.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/uncpress.unc.edu\/browse\/page\/141\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/metalab.unc.edu\/uncpress\/pics\/jackets\/e\n\/earley_looking.jpg\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Looking-Longleaf-Fall-American-Forest\/dp\/0807856\n991\/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1274837520&#038;sr=8-4\">\nLooking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest<\/a>,\nby Lawrence S. Earley\n<p>\nThe tallest and strongest of pine trees, longleaf made great sailing ship masts\n,\ntar for caulking ships, and of course saw timber.\nHow the early settlers cut down trees for houses and to clear land to farm.\nTheir hogs and cows running loose in the woods ate the young longleaf,\nsuppressing new trees for a hundred years.\nThen professional forestry took over, trying to suppress the\nfire that destroyed northern white pine forests, yet which\npreserves southern longleaf pine forests.\nThe sad story of turpentine: we knew better, but we did it anyway.\n<p>\nThe peculiar life cycle of a tree that starts out looking like\na clump of grass, and can stay that way for decades, yet promotes\nand survives fire and can grow more than 100 feet tall and live for centuries.\nThe thousands of species of plants, animals, and fungi the forest protects,\nmany of them, like wiregrass, also adapted to fire.\n<p>\nHow tuberculosis and quail led to new understandings of longleaf and fire,\nand the people who discovered those things.\nWe do know how to grow these trees now, and lots of people are doing it:\nfor jobs, for sawtimber, for the beauty of the forest.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So you&#8217;ve read Janisse Ray&#8217;s Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and you want to know more. Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, by Lawrence S. Earley The tallest and strongest of pine trees, longleaf made great sailing ship masts , tar for caulking ships, and of course saw timber. 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