Making a Difference

Some 150 years ago, longleaf pine forests covered about 90 million acres from Virginia to Texas.  An area more than all today's national parks combined. Early settlers described the forests as “limitless.   Today only 3% (2 million acres) of this unique ecosystem remains.

 It was as if the Southeastern USA had lost its Amazon.  

Nearly 900 species are associated with longleaf pine ecosystems. Half of those are considered rare, more than 100 are at-risk and 30 are threatened or endangered. Some of the best known of these species are indigo snakes, red-cockaded woodpeckers, gopher tortoises and flatwoods salamanders.  Few ecosystems in the world harbor so many different species as the longleaf pine forests!

“Protection through Profitability”

Our mission is to protect and grow the long-leaf forests of the Southeastern USA by encouraging entrepreneurship in sustainable forestry management & pine-straw harvesting.

We see a future where commercial forest use and environmental protection go hand in hand. We aim to be the premier source for landowners, forest managers and pine straw harvesters on the path toward sustainable forest use and help grow the total acreage of long-leaf  forests in the Southern USA.