[John Davis]

Down my way the Long Leaf Pine was king. When Europeans first arrived the long leaf pine forest stretched from the Atlantic to the Mississippi river. They say a squirrel could travel from the East Coast to the banks of the Muddy Waters and never touch the ground. They also estimate that there were about 100,000,000 Wood Ducks. (There were a lot of beaver ponds that no longer exist). Only a small fraction of the virgin Long Leaf Pines remain and there are now about 2,000,000 Wood Ducks. But we're trying to do our part. Planting Long Leaf and putting up Wood Duck boxes every where we can.