Welcome to America's Longleaf Initiative
Longleaf pine forests once covered an incredibly vast range. From the Atlantic Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia to the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, longleaf systems encompassed more than 90 million acres of the North American landscape.
These forests represented an extraordinary diversity of cultural, ecological and social-economic values, making them one of the great coniferous forests of the world.
Today longleaf pine forests are a mere remnant of their former majesty – less than three percent of the original acreage remains. Still, these remnants represent some of the world’s most biologically diverse ecosystems outside of the tropics, and support a number of threatened and endangered species.
America’s Longleaf Initiative is a voluntary collaborative effort more than 20 organizations and agencies that seeks to define, catalyze and support coordinated longleaf pine conservation efforts. The vision of America’s Longleaf is to have functional, viable longleaf pine ecosystems with the full spectrum of ecological, economic and social values inspired through a voluntary partnership of cornered, motivated organizations and individuals.
News
- Official Release of the Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine
Official release of the Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine and launch of the America's Longleaf Initiative took place March 19, 2009, in Washington D.C. at the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference.
- Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine
- Interested in reading the newly released Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine? Click here to download the Plan
