Conserving Southern Longleaf: Herbert Stoddard and the Rise of Ecological Land Management

Stoddard worked in the Red Hills of southern Georgia and northern Florida, a remnant of the longleaf pine forest that covered the southern coastal plain during the nineteenth century. The modern South eschewed the less tangible benefits of ecological diversity, abundant wildlife, and natural beauty to chase profits sowing the surrounding lands in loblolly pine, farm fertilizers and pesticides, and subdivisions.