“The air was now cool and salubrious, and riding seven or eight miles, through a pine forest, I came toSapello bridge, to which the salt tide flows. I here stopped…” — William Bartram, 1741, “Travels” ...

As crazy as it might sound, a South Florida ecosystem needs to be burned constantly in order to thrive. The Pine Rocklands are an ecosystem found on the limestone rocks of Miami-Dade, where the native ...

A habitat in southern Florida is home to a small grove of rare slash pines -- a keystone species of the pine rocklands, one of the most endangered... Rushing to Save South Florida's Slash Pine A small ...

Many South Florida slash pines have stood for a century, providing shade, oxygen and wildlife habitat, as cities rose around them. Now they face a mortal threat from swarms of tiny, wood-eating ...

A: There are seven pine trees that are native to Florida. Slash pine is found throughout Florida of which there are two types. Pinus elliottii var. 'Densa' naturally occurs south of Tampa and Orlando ...

Last Saturday I brushed a low pine branch and a poof of golden pollen wafted away. If you live in Sarasota, that’s a sign of spring. You’ve seen this pollen — a film on the hood of your car or yellow ...

In late March, we watched a young bald eagle in his nest, high in a slash pine at St. Marks National Refuge. It was very windy and this youngster was testing his wings. He would leap straight up, ...

A small habitat in southern Florida protects one of the most endangered forest types in the world -- the pine rocklands, home of the rare slash pine. In a huge stroke of luck, the fragile habitat ...