In exchange for the state forest land, the district would receive roughly 550 acres of Lee Peanut Farms LLC’s farmland along ...

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.

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Abigail Dowd grew up under the longleaf pines in the Sandhills. Known for her soulful voice and ...

Urbanization, agriculture, forest conversion due to logging, and suppression of natural fires have degraded the vast majority of longleaf pine forests. Development also exposes snakes to being run ...

It was a day of learning about the science of woods, water and wildlife at the Jones Center at Ichauway’s open house.

that occur in longleaf pine habitat on the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida. We observed that potential pollinators of H. flava were Halictidae, of M. alba were bumble bees (Apidae: Bombus), ...

But 98 percent of America's native longleaf-pine forest has now been destroyed; fire suppression, drought, pesticides, urban sprawl, highway construction and the decline of gopher tortoises have made ...

UNCW’s Office of Sustainability planted 80 saplings in the span of 30 minutes, with the help of 25 community volunteers (and two French bulldogs). The area of UNCW’s campus was once a 600-acre pine ...