Federal money o help enhance longleaf pine forests in the southeast

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is providing money to help enhance longleaf pine forests in the southeast.

The federal agency is providing nearly a million dollars to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to oversee the second phase of the multi-state program that also includes Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

The project will also get over a half million dollars in non-federal matching funds.

This project will significantly increase the quality and quantity of longleaf pine habitat on nearly 52 thousand acres of sandhill/upland longleaf forest in the five states by prescribed fire, invasive species removal or hardwood removal as well as through the planting of native longleaf pine and groundcover.

This project should improve the habitat of about 80 protected and endangered species in the region.

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