I recently inherited a family farm with cropland and mixed hardwood/loblolly that border a creek. This fall, I will be planting longleaf pines and understory grasses in the cropland. Your film touched my heart and confirmed that I made a great decision. I look forward to witnessing the journey as the forest grows around the graves of my great great grandparents.
That was a great video, very informative. I have 39 acres in Aberdeen NC, we started burning 4 years ago and the change is incredible. Longleaf loves fire
Recently began homeschooling my 6th grader... The ebs and flows that is learning brought me here and I am all the better for it. I especially like the education on fires. God bless! We will be watching this in our homeschool :)
Magnificent documentary. Can we honor the Indigenous peoples of North America . By changing the introduction . They were there before God gave The now population the land. We cannot forget the ancient peoples
If I could afford it. I would replant my entire 195 acers in east Texas with long leaf pine. Although I would leave the little stands of oak and hickory
I'm so glad I got a chance to see this. It was very well done and eye opening, especially as a resident of the south who wasn't even aware of this history. Thank you
fascinating discussion about culture and landscape and the complete oblivion that she expresses about who is destroying what and what that means about identity. Her ancestors had been on that land for a few generations at most, and had almost 0 understanding of the landscape that they willingly sold out for material gain. The indigenous who had stewarded that land for millenia? Not even a mention.
Because most still think of the natives as noble savages who were benign with no impact on the landscape. You might have noticed in the segment about fire, they spoke about fire prevention and refer to it occurring without regard to whether it was human set or natural. There exists a myth that Longleaf forests were an entirely natural phenomenon. I doubt it. A forester in the video talked about the ecosystem existing for 2 million years, which it may have, but not in the form encountered in 1700 and not in most of the both present day US, or it's former range as cited for the 90 million acres, which btw is usually the figure for pure longleaf, and not the larger areas which also included mixed longleaf and other species like Slash, or Shortleaf. I recall a generous estimate of up to 110 million acres for the range of longleaf and other fire adapted or resilient species. Anyway, Longleaf, like Apache Pine, and a few other Mexican Pine Species, likely evolved somewhere in Mexico in areas with high frequencies of lightning started fires, probably during the Pleistocene or before, and as the climate warmed over the last 10,000 to 12,000 years, longleaf moved north in the favorable habitat along the Gulf coast and then north along the Atlantic coast. I recall years ago reading a source which claimed that Longleaf only got east of the Mississippi River somewhere between 5000 to 7000 years ago, which is pretty recent. There were other fire resilient species like Shortleaf, and some that can tolerate fire earlier than Loblolly, such as Slash, but until Longleaf arrived, it seems very reasonable that the Pleistocene prairies which occurred in Florida became a swath of prairie that was expanded north because of fire use by the natives. Early settlers reported similar bluestem prairies in the southern Piedmont, from native fire use, and where a species like Longleaf was unable to survive.
Really nice learning about the timber researves we had. I spent 33 years working in the sawmill industry. 30 of that as a saw filer and before that with NCFS. I ve seen a lot planted, more harvested and even more made into boards. It s amazing how many hundreds of loads get cut per week and yet plenty of trees are still out there. Also amazing I still have 10 fingers lol.
Wonderful wonderful documentary. Grew up in Laurel Mississippi and just hiked in the Kisatchie National Forest today south of Shreveport. In the Kisatchie Hills Wilderness area there are some beautiful new growth sections along the Backbone trail. I think the Kisatchie stands have benefited greatly from the controlled Burns. I have been in the Kisatchie when they have done some Burns. I feel they really enhance the Longleaf culture. Anyway. Thanks for the film.
the same type of tree has given rise to the "fire culture" in north Indian state of uttrakhand as well (only the southern part has these trees cause its warmer than the north and centre).
You can see some of the work close to Duncanville,Alabama by the US National Forest Service. They are doing great work to restore the long leaf pine ecosystem there. Also visit the Indian mounds at Moundville, Alabama see the people that lived in the forest before now.
Why do property owners and even the forestry industry (government and corporations) favor loblolly over longleaf pines in southern forests? Am I wrong in that. I believe prescribed fires are the way to go. Coming from the western part of the US where humidity is much lower and of course wildfires seem to be far more frequent. I’m asking these questions because I’m looking to purchase about 50 acres in Mississippi. Although this is a small parcel I do want to be a good steward of the land. Of course I want to also provide a legacy for future generations of my family. I am too old to really see any financial benefit from all this but I can enjoy the properties nature till my time ends. I enjoyed and was inspired by your video. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I don't know what kind of pines we have here in South alabama but on the base they have loads of pines and do a controlled burn for the pines almost every year or so! It works if you know what you are doing! People are so dang careless today and just don't care the damage they cause by being irresponsible and we need to change that!
Unintelligent and Too busy hating everything including history to learn anything! I think it's good information enough I want to plant some long leaf pine now!
might have been an amish viewer. a large portion of them have cell phones are are clearcutting from kentucky to new york. most of the mature trees are cut into blocking that gets used once and thrown away. sometimes, 40 inch oaks for pallet wood
the settlers made buildings out of corduroy logs, which included side pine branches and vines, especially grape vine from the swamps. The ones that had stone opr brick. foundations of a sturdy sort were built over courtesy of Sears catalog. Tar paper drawed upon in the early days.
they also grow in Florida's white sands when some soil is present. not the best answer, just sharing observation. i live too far north for this tree to survive outside, so i have 2 in containers in the apartment
@@get__some Last year I grew a pine tree, but it can not withstand temperatures below -18 degrees Celsius (or -0.4 Fahrenheit). In summer, seedlings grew outside. For the winter, I removed them from the frost, stored them at a temperature from 0 to -7 degrees Celsius (or from 32 to 19.4 degrees Fahrenheit). I know that while the seedlings are small (up to three years old), they can be forced to tolerate lower temperatures. While they are still sleeping the winter sleep, I froze them at a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius (or -0.4 degrees Fahrenheit). For 24 hours. Then for 24 hours at a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius (or 32 Fahrenheit). Then for 24 hours at a temperature of -25 degrees Celsius (or -13 degrees Fahrenheit). And again for 24 hours at a temperature of 0 degrees Celsius (or 32 Fahrenheit). If they can withstand such a decrease in temperature, then the experiment was a success. While the experiment is not over yet, in four days everything will be clear. The same can be done with the collected seeds - it is more preferable.
I have mixed feelings about controlled burns. ...But it's hard to know about the needs of mulch for fungi, microbes, and even worms amongst others wont thrive as much without. The soil is alive, and fire drastically changes allot. It seems like less bio-diversity, and less soil fertility. I know I'm over stepping. I have mixed feelings.
It makes me mad how these peoples ancestors just came and destroyed most of the forest...theres other ways to making houses..All this colonization is destroying everything..
I don't understand why you have to burn everything. Before Europeans came over, there was 90 million acres of Longleaf Pine forests that nobody had ever set fire to. And they were thriving just fine.
