#longleafpine — Public Fediverse posts
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Hype for the Future 105B: National Forests of Texas
Introduction Within the State of Texas, a total of four (4) national forest zones are included, obviously on the eastern side of the State in which more humidity is typical. For each national forest, a distinct story is told about the State as a whole, with every particular regional divide representing cultural distinctions as well as geographic and potentially natural distinctions. National Forests Within the State of Texas, the national forests are named Sam Houston, Angelina, Davy […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105b-national-forests-of-texas/
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Search for "Historical" Trees
On my Fall trip to Cliffs of the Neuse State Park, I searched for certain historical trees that are not typically known by the general public. Hikers could walk right by them and not know to look.
⛵ I knew enough history to know what to look for. From the mid-1700s to the mid 1800s, North Carolina was the top global source of "naval stores." These were products used for making and maintaining ships.
👑 Colonizers made use of the seemingly endless forests of Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris) for lumber, tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine.
🎻To make rosin and turpentine, notches were cut into the pine trees and the sticky liquid that ran out was collected. This was distilled into liquid turpentine and solid rosin.
🪓 After cutting down or weakening trees for decades, longleaf pines had to be sought hundreds of miles inland, like this park, which has preserved the landscape.
❓But could I find still living trees with the telltale marks of turpentine production? Could any be alive after so many decades?
🥾 I hiked to a long undisturbed woodland area and found a couple of old gnarled pines. Here's one of them and a close-up of its base, showing a "healed" wound which is characteristic of notching for turpentine production - around 175 years earlier.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #LongleafPine #History #Nature #TravelTuesday
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Longleaf Pine Savannah in the Green Swamp, North Carolina. This was *the* ecosystem type of most of the Southeast United States before Europeans arrived. (Though with much larger adult pines). Also interesting? This is the native habitat of Venus Flytraps. There were dozens (if not hundreds) in this area!
December 28th, 2011.
Note too, that its a felony to remove venus flytraps from the wild. They are slow growing plants....#NorthCarolina #longLeafPine #ecology #nature #venusFlyTrap #plants
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A wild Venus Flytrap in the Green Swamp, North Carolina, USA, in a Longleaf Pine Savannah. Picture taken December 28th, 2011. We saw a lot of flytraps that day - we specifically went to look for them. It took us over an hour to find the first one, and then we spotted them all over the place.
#Nature #GreenSwamp #venusFlytrap #carnivorousPlant #NorthCarolina #LongLeafPine #ecology
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A statement avant-garde piece on vanishing longleaf pine ecosystems in the southeastern US (less than 2% remain) by Lisa D. Watson — Field of Vision, currently on exhibit at Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head, SC.
#longleafpine #pineforests #ecosystem #ecology #nature #outdoors #silentsunday #hiltonheadisland
