2024 Annual Evelyn McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture: Finding our future in longleaf diversity

With Bill Finch, Director, Paint Rock Forest Research Center
April 7, 2024
The longleaf pine ecosystem has often been described as North America’s most diverse forest ecosystem, and longleaf, like few other ecosystems, fostered diversity within and outside its canopy. But understanding the diversity of that diversity will be critical not only to maintaining longleaf pine but also to restoring forest ecosystems that can survive the dramatic changes of the next century, while more equitably serving the people who live there.