One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared. A recovery is underway.

YEMASSEE — Making the sweeping right turn from U.S. Highway 21 onto Savannah Highway, a faint column of pale gray smoke began to build a couple miles to the east. A controlled burn was getting ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) is setting up a prescribed burn of an area within its longleaf pine forest on the main campus over winter break. The burn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A land manager examines young longleaf pines, some in their grassy phase, in a private forest in South Carolina. AP Photo/James ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrea De Stefano, Mississippi State University (THE CONVERSATION) For thousands of ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the longleaf pine. The forest once stretched across 92 million acres from ...