Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund

Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund is sponsored by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). This fund supports projects that restore and enhance longleaf pine forest ecosystems across the southeastern United States. Activities include prescribed burning, invasive species control, and tree planting.

Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund | NFWF Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund ​Longleaf pine forest | Credit: Christine Ambrose The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund expands, enhances and accelerates longleaf pine ecosystem restoration across longleaf pine’s historical range throughout the southeastern United States.

The longleaf pine ecosystem once encompassed more than 90 million acres of North America, from Virginia to Texas. Unique to the southeastern United States, it contains a stunning diversity of plants and animals, including rare and endangered wildlife like the indigo snake, red-cockaded woodpecker and gopher tortoise.

Unfortunately, less than 5 percent of the original acreage remains, and threatened and endangered species that depend on the habitat are struggling to survive.

The Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund is a landmark public-private partnership supported by federal funding—including the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Department of War and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service—and private funding from Bezos Earth Fund, International Paper’s Forestland Stewards Partnership , Southern Company, Altria Group, Amazon Web Services, Occidental, Energy Transfer, AstraZeneca and The Orton Foundation (an affiliate of The Moore Charitable Foundation, founded by Louis Bacon).

Funding priorities for this program include: ​Restoring the longleaf pine ecosystem through collaborative and result-oriented actions that help advance the goals of the Range-Wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine Maintaining, enhancing and expanding productive understory habitat of the longleaf pine ecosystem Aiding federal agencies in achieving their mission-oriented objectives Supporting the recovery of iconic species through habitat enhancements Strengthening the capacity of local organizations to establish, advance or lead local longleaf pine ecosystem restoration efforts Expanding the number of landowners engaged in longleaf pine restoration and maintenance on private lands, and supporting working forests by demonstrating their environmental and socioeconomic benefits The Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund builds on the success of the Longleaf Legacy Program, a partnership between Southern Company and NFWF since 2004, which has invested more than $151 million into projects that will restore, maintain and conserve more than 5.

5 million acres of longleaf pine forest and the native species that rely on it.

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These non-venomous snakes, which can be identified by the blue-black sheen to their scales, are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act due to population declines as a result of habitat loss and removal of individuals for pet trade.

Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund Longleaf Forests and Rivers Longleaf Forests and Rivers Business Plan Eastern hardwood forest birds Eastern hardwood forest birds Eastern deciduous forests provide important habitat for forest birds, which can reside in them year-round, or rely on them as breeding grounds or stop-over sited during migration.

Deciduous forests have been subject to fragmentation, putting the wide variety of bird species they support at risk.

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While they occupy similar habitats as Cape May and blackpoll warblers, bay-breasted warblers in particular forage at the inner mid-level, and nest in the lower third-level, of trees.

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Population declines coincided with extensive logging of longleaf pine stands in the early 20th century, and led to the species being placed on the Endangered Species List by 1970.

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Bobwhite quail prefer shrubby areas surrounding grasslands or agricultural fields and live in groups called "coveys" during the fall and winter.

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Considered a keystone species, more than 350 species of wildlife rely on their their complex burrow systems for shelter and protection, which makes widespread population declines of gopher tortoise of special conservation concern.

Acres for America Program Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund Longleaf Forests and Rivers Longleaf Forests and Rivers Business Plan The golden-winged warbler is a striking, neotropical songbird with bright yellow plumage on the crown and wings.

Their breeding range formerly extended across the Midwest to the east, but is now restricted to two isolated subpopulations: one in the higher-elevation areas of the Appalachians and the other around the Great Lakes into Manitoba. Loss of early succesional has resulted in population declines especially for the eastern population.

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It is dependent on contiguous tracts of mature, deciduous forest habitat throughout its breeding range in the eastern United States, and is particularly sensitive to the negative effects of forest fragmentation which has contributed to widespread population declines.

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This species is threatened by runoff caused by agriculture and forestry activities as it is very sensitive to water pollutants. Longleaf Landscape Stewardship Fund Longleaf Forests and Rivers Longleaf Forests and Rivers Business Plan Advancing conservation goals of Southern forest owners NFWF Awards $20 Million in Grants to Restore Longleaf Pine Habitat across the Southeast Timber, talons and the return of the swallow-tailed kite