Monthly Longleaf Learning

We just heard that a 1996 "Longleaf Legacies" calendar/booklet, produced right here in Florida, hangs in the Washington, D.C. office of the U.S. Forest Service research director. This is one 1996 calendar that's worth buying three or four months after the year's beginning. It contains much interesting information about longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ), a valuable timber tree that is also the hallmark of some of the richest plant and animal communities in North America. Longleaf pine may or may not be suitable for your land and your management objectives. But either way, this calendar can add to your knowledge of Florida's forest history and provide food for thought about the many valuable things, with and without price tags, that come from the woods.

While, some landowners are working to restore longleaf ecosystems primarily to preserve some of the Florida's natural history, the calendar authors, Carol Goodwin and Julie Moore, also emphasize that growing longleaf timber can be a profitable undertaking.

Ms. Goodwin plans to put all the writing and pictures from the 1995 and 1996 calendars into a small book that should come out this summer. To order 1996 calendars ($8.50 each, postpaid) or get to more information about the book or the 1997 calendar, contact:

Long Needle Press
PO Box 141464
Gainesville, Florida
32614-1464
(352) 466-0090; fax (352) 466-0608