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The Conecuh National Forest in southern Alabama is adjacent to the Dixon Center. It is the northern-most portion of an extensive, contiguous longleaf pine forest that extends to the Blackwater River State Forest and Eglin Air Force Base in Florida . This area shows evidence of active management by the periodic use of prescribed fire. The prescribed fire controls competing trees and woody shrubs and tends to invigorate the fire adapted plants that define the longleaf forest. The conspicuous under-story and ground cover plants shown here include gallberry (Ilex glabra) and various bunch grasses. The less conspicuous ground cover includes a wide variety of grasses, herbaceous plants and legumes that provide food and cover for many animals. This particular area is sufficiently open and grassy that some might call it a savanna but I will not attempt to address the correct use and characterization of terms to define the continuum from dense forest to prairie. |
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