Burn Back Better: How Western States Can Encourage Prescribed Fire on Private Lands provides an analysis of western state policies and focused recommendations to help increase private lands prescribed fire. Released in January 2023, the report is a collaboration...
Articles
The 2023 Farm Bill is a Big Opportunity for Land Stewardship and Prescribed Fire
Every five years, the federal government must reauthorize the Farm Bill. This sweeping legislative package is made up of a variety of different policies from conservation to nutrition to rural development that authorizes the U.S. Department of Agriculture to carry out...
Important Conservation Easement Legislation Passed by Congress
As a leading accredited land trust, Tall Timbers is invested in protecting the integrity of donated conservation easements, which are at the heart of our efforts to protect rural landscapes in the Red Hills and Albany regions. For this reason, we are grateful to a...
Recognizing Johnny Stowe for Outstanding Efforts in Private Lands Fire
While Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs) focus on local fire, we also recognize the benefits of learning and seeking inspiration from other regions. In that spirit, the Tall Timbers supported Southwest Georgia PBA headed to North Carolina to represent our region at...
Gopher Tortoise Disease Study
The Tall Timbers Land Management team conducted gopher tortoise disease research this summer.
Floyd’s Mound — Conserving Land and Archeological Resources with the Red Hills Opportunity Fund
Tall Timbers has acquired a 40-acre parcel in the Aucilla River watershed of archeological significance for the region. The property includes a Native American mound, known locally as Floyd’s Mound. The presence of the mound is striking with its four pyramidal sides...
The Multiple Benefits of Quail Management
By Jim Cox, originally published in the Summer 2022 edition of Quail Call. It’s not much of a stretch to suggest that the Quail Call and all the other great information that Tall Timbers provides on quail management, has strong links to another bird that is as plump...
Managing Game Bird Program Field Visits with a New App
By Clay Sisson, Albany Quail Project Director and Extension Coordinator and Karen Cummins, Geospatial Database Administrator The Tall Timbers' Game Bird Program needed an efficient way to track field visits on hunting properties both by program area and regionally to...
Quail Management Provides Many Ecosystem Services
 By Kevin Robertson, PhD and Cinnamon Dixon, Fire Ecology Lab, originally published in the Summer 2022 edition of Quail Call. The term "ecosystem services" has gotten a lot of buzz in recent years. They are basically products or processes provided by natural lands...
Second Year of Stewardship Funding Opens for Georgia Landowners
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced this week that a sign-up deadline of November 4, 2022 has been set for the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). Applications for financial and technical assistance...
Tall Timbers Supported Prescribed Burn Associations
By George Jensen and John McGuire Tall Timbers, with support from NRCS: Working Lands for Wildlife, has created three Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs) with the goal of increasing landowner involvement with prescribed fire at the application level. PBAs are...
Second Prescribed Burn on Thomas County Central High School Longleaf Plot
The Tall Timbers team, along with Southern Regional Technical College and the Southwest Georgia Prescribed Burn Association, conducted a prescribed burn at Thomas County Central High School.