Alabama pine forests threatened as brown spot blight spreads across the South

A fungal disease is spreading through pine forests across Alabama, threatening the trees that fuel one of the state’s biggest ...
American Songwriter

Jason Isbell, “Alabama Pines”

Jason Isbell has always been a sharp chronicler of place. His music seeps with tradition and heritage, and if the protagonists in his songs are roamers and wanderers, home’s never far from their minds ...
Montgomery Advertiser

Program works to restore longleaf pines in Alabama

AUTAUGA COUNTY — Trice Nichols looks over a longleaf pine patch on the family farm north of Prattville and wonders if the young trees will make it. “We clear cut this area in 2009 and decided to come ...
The Anniston Star

Extensive drought has made Alabama pines susceptible to beetles, fungi, experts say

The Alabama Forestry Commission warns that the state’s pine forests may in the long term see widespread harm from a persistent drought that began last summer. Northern Alabama pine trees, according to ...