The Pines: Southern Forests [Hardcover]

The Pinesis a photographic exploration looking at remnants of the momentous and sacred old-growth longleaf pinelands across the southeastern United States. Historically, this was once one of America's most significant landscapes. This book is Chuck Hemard's experience in the present that gives a tiny glimpse of insight into both past and future.

Chuck Hemardhas work included in public collections across the southeast United States, including the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus GA and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.

Nick Norwoodis a professor of creative writing at Columbus State University and the director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia and Nyack, New York.

Dr. Rebecca Barlow, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Specialist and Associate Professor, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Prior to European settlement, longleaf pinelands were dominate component of a
landscape mosaic that stretched some 90 million acres from Virginia to East Texas. One of America's most bio-diverse ecosystems, this landscape has close ties to the cultural, environmental, and economic history of the South. This
ecosystem has been called the forest that fire built, and in addition to the old-growth trees, some images explore fire's presence on the land. The pictures consider this slow landscape and the present state of what remains,
reflecting on the scale of time and how old-growth remnants of a once vast landscape are more about a place than a tree. Additionally, reconsidering fire as both a natural process and metaphor for health and survival alongside rapid change and destruction, one might discover the momentous. Longleaf pine is a topic many southern people are extremely passionate about. There has been a resurgence of interest in the restoration of longleaf throughout the region.

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