Throughout the Southeast, foresters and activists are coming together to restore America’s longleaf pine forests. The Nature Conservancy reports that longleaf pines once dominated the coastal plain, covering more than 90 million acres. Now there are just 5.2 million acres. In Mississippi, more than two million longleaf pine seedlings have been planted in the past […]

“All you have to do is make a drive through (Greene County) to see that our most abundant resource is trees, primarily pine trees,” long-term resident of Greene County, Miss., Danny Box said.  Box worked for the Natural Resources Conservation Service Agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 33 years. He retired in 2019, […]