2004 Longleaf Legacy Grants

The Longleaf Legacy program is focused on restoring the South's signature longleaf pine ecosystem to conserve biological diversity and sequester carbon. The following organizations were awarded Longleaf Legacy grants:

• Applied Research Center of Alabama – To restore native longleaf pine to approximately 1,000 acres of current loblolly and Virginia pine plantations in the Talladega National Forest over the next three years. This project, which will plant nearly 600,000 longleaf seedlings, will create new habitat for red-cockaded woodpeckers, Northern bobwhite quail, Bachman’s sparrows and a host of other species that depend on longleaf forests.
• USDI-Fish and Wildlife Service/Eufaula NWR – To support the transition from predominantly mature loblolly pine forest to longleaf pine on 400 acres in the Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge. This conversion restores the landscape to the historic fire-dominant longleaf pine habitat type allowing more frequent prescribed burning benefiting numerous plant and animal species.
• The Nature Conservancy of Alabama – To reforest 185 acres of mountain longleaf pine habitat on the Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge.
• Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR)/State Parks – To restore the longleaf pine ecosystem on 254 acres of DNR managed land.
• The Nature Conservancy of Florida – To restore 254 acres of longleaf pine/wiregrass habitat on three Nature Conservancy preserves located in the Florida panhandle.
• Longleaf Alliance – To encourage ecological restoration and carbon sequestration through the planting of longleaf pine trees on at least 500 private acres.