The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas will plant about 240,000 longleaf pine seedlings on its reservation this winter to help restore this rare ecosystem.
Longleaf pine forests once spanned 90 million acres, but they’ve been reduced to 3.4 million acres—about 3 percent of their original range. That’s why NRCS is helping landowners increase the number of longleaf pine forests across the country.
Ray Menke of rural Fort Madison admits the main reason he switched to no-till farming in 1987 was his inability to afford new expensive farm equipment and machinery.
