IN THIS ISSUE...
FEATURE
- Fire Festival Returns
- Tall Timbers Piney Woods Festival
- Tall Timbers History Makes a Great Gift
- Beadel Guns Return to Tall Timbers
- Southwest Georgia Chapter of Quail Forever Helps Bring Back Bobwhites
- Fall Field Day Returned to Nilo
- Carolina Regional Quail Project Gets New Biologist
- National Prescribed Fire Training Center moves to Tall Timbers
- Tall Timbers Partners with eBird
- Membership Has Benefits
- Tall Timbers Receives Preservation Award
- Archaeologist L. Ross Morrell Passes
- Exploring the Red Hills Region
- New Director for Private Lands Initiative
- New Exhibit at the Webster Art Gallery
- New Exhibit Opening at the Webster Art Gallery
- Drought and quail management
- Toll Road Plan Threatens Red Hills
- New Exhibit Opens at the Webster Art Gallery
- Seminole Nation of Oklahoma at Tall Timbers
- Land Conservationist George W. Willson Passes
- Upcoming Events
- Tall Timbers Scientists Keynote Two Regional Fire Science Workshops
- Mapping Fires Across Florida
- Field Day at Black River
- Inaugural 5 stand Sporting Shoot
- 2019 Continental Field Trial at Dixie Plantation
- Webster Gallery Spring Exhibit
- Tenant Farm Welcomes Visitors
- Tall Timbers Web Site Re-designed
- Prescribed fire and air quality
- Air Quality Workshop in Atlanta
- Management Recommendations
- Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction
- Tall Timbers is your advocate
- Jim Cox receives prestigious award
- Naturalists' Ball to honor Rosamond C. Davis
- Kate Ireland and Guest Housing for Woodpeckers
- South Carolina Field Day
- Management Recommendations
- Miss Kate and the Game Bird Program
- Quail Populations - What Goes Up Must Come Down
- Kate Ireland Memorial
- What Kate Ireland Meant to Tall Timbers
- Thinning pines and removal of upland hardwoods
- We need your vote today, and every day until November 30 for Operation Outdoors
- Bird Notes
- Shortleaf Pine/Oak/Hickory Forest Community
- Tall Timbers’ Bobwhite Quail Management Handbook Published
- Art and Archaeology at the Tenant Farm
- Tall Timbers Photography Exhibit
- Management Recommendations
- Public Lands Summit
- Quail Hatch
- Fire Festival 2018
- Short Course for Prescribed Burn Certification
- Management Recommendations
- Bird Notes
- Youth Hunting Field Day
- Land Managers Lunch Invitation
- New Gopher Tortoise Research
- Collaboration of Research and Land Management
- RxScience
- Quail Nest Predation
- Your Membership Helps
- Regional Purchasing of Supplemental Feed
- Management Recommendations
- Bird Notes
- Management Recommendations
- Quail Research Update
- Outreach Program...Getting Started
- Meet Our Outreach Coordinator
- Prospects Are for Continued Drought
- Quail Hatch Report
- Naturalists' Ball Invitation
- Safe Harbor Program Receives New Blood
- Winter Disking
- What About the Smoke?
- Tall Timbers Map Collection Digitized
- Prescribed Burning in Dry Conditions
- Quail Carry-over
- FROM THE CHAIRMAN
- Archaeology and History Day
- Outreach Program...Getting Started
- Outreach Program...Getting Started
- A Crazy Year for Sparrows
- The Legacy of Louise Humphrey
- Short Course for Prescribed Burn Certification
- Tall Timbers Endowment Campaign
- Upcoming Fall Field Days
- Early Start to 2012 Quail Hatch
- A Red-cockaded Woodpecker Milestone
- Program promising for gopher tortoises
- Land Managers Luncheon
- Land Managers Learn at Lunch
- Renew Your Membership
- Auction & Golf Tournament
- Turkey Invitational
- New Director of Development Named
- Hunter's Clinic & Safety Course
- Prescribed Fire Workshop for Resource Specialists
- Greater Red Hills Awareness Initiative
- Quail Hatch Update
- Land Management Recommendations
- Quail Hatch Update
- Tallahassee Candidates Environmental Forum
- We Need Your Vote
- Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation
- Fall Field Day at Cherokee Plantation
- Your Membership Helps
- Parker-Williams Library
- Auction & Golf Tournament Support Foundation
- Better Estimates of Particulate Matter from Fire
- Bird Notes
- Gopher Tortoise Listing Status Update
- Piney Woods Festival Draws a Crowd
- Tall Timbers History Published
- Fire Summit II
- Quail Hatch
- Last day to vote!!!
- Congress Considering Caps on Charitable Giving
- What is the economic impact of Red Hills working rural lands?
- Your Membership Makes a Difference
- A Burning Desire
- Burning Questions
- Game Bird Program Receives Grant
- Hardwood Re-sprout Roots
- Economic Value of Services Provided by Nature
- Prescribed Fire Training Center
- You're Invited - Tall Timbers Auction & Dinner
- Seeking Director of Development
- Weather Station Upgraded
- Bird Notes
- Fire Ecology Workshop at Yale
- 2013 Fall Field Day Set
- PFTC - June Training Session
- Land Managers Luncheon
- Auction & Golf Tournament
- Quail Hatch Report
- Tall Timbers Field Days Just Weeks Away
- Tall Timbers Needs Your Membership
- Bahia Grass Control Project
- Thirty-fifth Anniversary Census of the Wade Tract
- Pebble Hill Fire Plots Census
- Chick Survival and Late Quail Hatch
- Red Hills Awareness Initiative
- GA/FL Turkey Invitational
- Tall Timbers Acquires Dixie Plantation
- Land Managers Lunch
- Florida/Georgia Quail Coalition
- New Tall Timbers Membership Opportunities
- Archaeology Presentation at Tall Timbers
- Invasive Grass Control
- Dr. Bud Bailey Donates Land to Tall Timbers
- PFTC/Tall Timbers Impact on Prescribed Fire around
- Fall Field Day at Dixie Plantation
- Bird Notes
- Quail Hatch - Mid-Season Report
- Continental Field Trials at Dixie Plantation
- Your Support Needed for Conservation Easement Funding in Florida
- Wild Quail - Surviving the Odds
- Webster Art Gallery
- Advancement Committee
- Native Plants Database
- Greater Red Hills Awareness Initiative
- The Tale of the GT Cruiser
- Wild Turkey Ramblings
- Prescribed Burning Milestone Reached
- Over 600 Come to Tall Timbers to Learn About Fire
- A Chapter and Coalition Devoted to Seeing Wild Quail Back on Public Lands in Georgia
- New Fire Ecologist at Tall Timbers
- Remembering Dr. William R. Brueckheimer
- Rare Striped Newt Discovered
- Tall Timbers Receives Grant for Dixie Plantation
- Quail Hatch Report
- Quail Plantations, Tall Timbers Receive Awards
- December 1 is #GivingTuesday
- 18th Annual Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction
- Technology & Grasshoppers Combine for a New Study
- Ecosystem Ground Cover Restoration Workshop
- New Exhibit Opens at Webster Art Gallery
- Exploring the Red Hills Region
- Regional Game Bird Biologist Joins Tall Timbers
- Reestablishing Longleaf Pine
- Tall Timbers Dendrochronology Lab
- Good Crop of Beggarweed…Good Crop of Quail
- Garden & Gun Hosts Tall Timbers
- Tall Timbers featured at Hearth & Soul
- GA-FL Turkey Invitational
- Bird Boxing in South Florida
- Tree-ring Study of Historical Fires
- Concerns About Parasites in Bobwhite
- Experimental Garden Planted on Tall Timbers
- 2018 Continental Field Trial
- Spring Exhibit at Tall Timbers
- Yes, Early Bobwhite Calls Heard
- Game Bird Seminar - Save the Date
- Longleaf Planted for Eagle Scout Project
- Night Burn of the Wade Tract Conducted
- Ladies Luncheon hosted by Tall Timbers at historic Dixie Mansion
- Tall Timbers hosts the Prescribed Fire Science Consortium
- Dixie Davis Joins Tall Timbers
- Eric Rowell Joins Wildland Fire Science Program
- Tall Timbers in Mexico
- RxFire Consortium Secures Grants
- Exploring the Red Hills Region
- Harold Odom − Longtime Volunteer Passes
- Conservation Incentive Program Luncheon
- New Tall Timbers Board Leadership
- Tall Timbers receives donations at Quail Forever appreciation dinner
- Turkey hunters support the Game Bird Program
- The Fall 2016 Prescribed Fire and Fire Science Webinar Series
- TALL TIMBERS INAUGURAL | KATE IRELAND MEMORIAL
- Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner and Auction
- Historic Resources Happenings
- Webster Gallery - Scenes from the Red Hills
- Carolina Regional Quail Project Field Day
- Kate Ireland Memorial Auction & Dinner
- Winter Exhibit at the Webster Art Gallery
- National Association of Counties visiting Tall Timbers
- Red Hills Fire Festival
- Fire Science Program Growing Like Wildfire
- Long-awaited Diamonds in the Rough Published
- Tall Timbers Publishes New Book
- Swedish Fire Scientists and Managers Visit
RESEARCH & LAND MANAGEMENT
- A Reflection on the 2021-2022 Quail Hunting Season
- New Projects Launched to Train Prescribed Burners
- Status Change for Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- The Benefits of Ecosystem Services
- Tall Timbers hosted the first National Unmanned Aerial System Ignition Academy
- Quail Hatch Report in Anticipation of Quail Season
- New Research Plots at Tall Timbers Attract Collaboration
- Tall Timbers Committed to Wildland Fire Management Education
- Locating the Holy (G)Rail of Birds
- Frequency of Southeast Prescribed Burns Mapped
- Quail Hatch and Population Status
- Fire Modeling with California Partners
- New Western Pineywoods Quail Program Established
- Frosted Elfin Butterfly Study Glows
- LiDAR Habitat Survey Technique
- New Shortleaf Pine-Oak-Hickory Study
- Bobwhite Breeding Season Begins with High Optimism
- Forest Community Map
- Endangered Black Rail Study Along the Gulf Coast
- Expanding Private Lands Prescribed Fire Use
- Quail Hatch Results
- Big “Cat” Hunters
- Pandemic Impacts on Prescribed Fire
- Hog Havoc App
- Burn Severity Mapping
- Targeted Management Reduces Wildfire Risk
- Red Hills Program to Control Feral Swine
- Tall Timbers and Southern Fire Exchange Partnership
- Frequent Fire and Hardwood Encroachment
- Newly Described Species Found at Tall Timbers
- Quail Hatch Report
- Raptors and Bobwhite Survival
- Nuthatch Population Reintroductions
- Plant Responses to Fire
- Bobwhite Hunting Report
- Bird Banding Trophy Catch
- Wiregrass Growth
- Quail Hatch — Good Hunting Numbers
- Fire Effects on Coastal Marsh Bird Species
- New study – What plants return when fire is re-introduced?
- Fire Science Co-production Workshop
- Scientifically Sowing the Seeds of the Sundial
- Quail Hatch
- New Director of Fire Research at Tall Timbers
- Tall Timbers Back to Mexico
- Safe Harbor Program Workshop
- A Birds-Eye View of Carbon Flow
- Yale School of Forestry Partnership
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker nest discovered on Dixie Plantation
- Reintroduction Done on a Dime May Work
- Great Conditions Produce Excellent Bobwhite Hunting
- Weather or Not — We Want to Know
- Fire Behavior Models Critical to Prescribed Fire Planning
- New Insights into Longleaf Pine
- Game Bird Seminar/Fall Field Day
- Carolina Field Day at Heatherstone Farm
- Experimental Wiregrass Plots Remapped
- Red-cockaded Woodpeckers on Dixie Plantation
- Hurricane Michael Impacts Woodyard Hammock
- Bobwhites in the Eye of the Storm
- Bobwhite Nesting Activity Intensifying
- Prescribed Fire & Butterfly Conservation
- Wet Weather and Bobwhite Chicks
- Winter Weather Impacts Hunt Success
- Disking Effects on Groundcover
- New Wildlands Fire Scientist
- Stoddard Bird Lab news
- Improving estimates of smoke from fire
- Bug'n for bobwhite
- Old-field pinelands – a long way towards restoration of native pineland soil
- Murderous Nuthatches?
- Prescribed Fire Consortium Meets at Tall Timbers
- New Project Studies Effects of Longleaf’s Multi-century Life Cycle
- Birds of a Covey Often Stay Together
- Good Bobwhite Carryover
- Digging Up Some New Dirt on One of Our Most Reclusive Animals — the Pocket Gopher
- Blowdown event of longleaf pine in the Red Hills creates opportunity for better understanding carbon storage by old trees
- Fire Frequency Effects on Soil Carbon
- Above average adult bobwhite survival sets stage for good late season hatch
- Fire and Wildlife Management at Tall Timbers
- Tree Stumps Reveal Fire History
- Quail Forecast
- New project to study the benefits of restoring pine-grassland
- "Hot" Topics for Bobwhite
- Safe Harbor - Freedom to Grow
- Quail Hatch Report
- The Season of Past Fires: Insights from a Study of Tree-growth Patterns
- Map of Fire Occurrence a Critical Need for Conservation
- New Stoddard Bird Lab Internship Funded
CONSERVATION
- Sentinel Landscape Designation Provides New Opportunities
- GPS Telemetry Data Used for Wild Pig Management
- Support the Red Hills Spring Dinner
- Toll Road Significantly Reduced
- Feral Hog Control Program Update
- New Funding Helps Landowners
- Map to Explore the Aucilla Watershed
- The Passing of Dr. Pamela Hall
- Connecting Landowners to Their Birds
- Red Hills Conservation Florida Forever Project
- Economic Impact of Quail to Albany Region
- Toll Road Enters New Phase
- New Opportunity to Help Landowners with Conservation Easements
- Suncoast Connector Toll Road Update
- Accreditation Renewed by Land Trust Accreditation Commission
- Latest Toll Road News
- Suncoast Connector Toll Road Update
- Fire Festival Coming in January
- Land Trust Alliance Accreditation
- Grant Funds Received for Dixie House Restoration
- Linking Land Conservation and Historic Preservation in the Red Hills
- Area Landowners Honored at Red Hills Spring Dinner
- Longleaf Learning Landscape
- Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Amendment
- Red Hills Spring Dinner
- Kate Ireland - Leadership with Passion and Vision
- Red Hills Spring Dinner and Easement Seminar
- Staff Changes at the Tall Timbers Land Conservancy
- Update on Planning and Advocacy Issues
- Ochlockonee River Clean-up
- Georgia Acquisition of Easements Frozen
- Orchard Pond Toll Road Approved for Funding
- Tax Incentive Not Renewed
- New Conservation Easements
- Conservation Efforts and Important Issues
- Georgia Tightens State Tax Credit Incentives
- Economic Impact of Hunting Plantations
- Land Conservancy Educates About Conservation
- Closing the Gap
- Tax Incentive Renewal
- Tall Timbers History Wins Award
- Christine Todd Whitman to Speak at Tall Timbers
- Economic Impact Survey
- Greater Red Hills Awareness Initiative
- Herp Event at Dixie Plantation
- Thomasville Regional Airport expansion
- Florida's Amendment 1 Endorsed
- Land Conservancy Accreditation Renewed
- 2015 Land Use Issues
- Implementation of Florida Amendment 1 Funds
- Legislation Supporting Conservation
- Red Hills Spring Dinner at Dixie Plantation
- Greater Red Hills Awareness Initiative
- Concerns About Proposed Sabal Trail Pipeline
- Fighting an Exotic Species-Cuban Bullhead Sedge
- Conservation Easement Incentive Act
- Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Act
- New Stewardship Manager Hired
- Old-growth cypress stand on Aucilla River Saved
- Tall Timbers Reaches Settlement Agreement
- Virtual Forest Tour Project
- Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Amendment
- Victory for Land Conservation
- Planning Issues in Red Hills
- Red Hills Land Conservation Opportunity Fund Created
- Conservation Easement Donors Honored at Red Hills Spring Dinner
- Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam Speaks at Red Hills Spring Dinner
- August is Cogon Grass treatment time
- Protecting Red Hills waters from confined animal feeding operation runoff
- Invasive Coral Ardisia - Seek and Destroy
- Red Hills’ Second Quail Lands Economic Impact Analysis Coming in 2018
SUPPORT
- Kevin’s Game Fair Benefits Tall Timbers
- Red Hills Steward Tom Rankin Honored
- 24th Annual Kate Ireland Auction & Dinner
- Save the Date for Fall Field Day
- Kevin’s Southern Game Fair
- Georgia-Florida Turkey Invitational Postponed
- Thanks to Auction Sponsors
- Park Cities Quail Coalition Grant Awarded
- Tall Timbers Virtual Auction – September 27
- Become a Member
- Volunteer Spotlight
- A Look Back at 2019
- Join Us for the Turkey Invitational
- Have You Renewed Your Membership?
- Fall Events
- Save the Date for the Annual Auction
- 14th Annual Georgia – Florida Turkey Invitational
- Georgia-Florida Turkey Invitational
- Game Bird Seminar/Fall Field Day Sponsors
- Thank You Carolina Field Day Sponsors
- Membership Renewal
- Thank You Auction Sponsors
- 2018 Auction - Save the Date
- GA–FL Turkey Invitational
- Thanks to our Sponsors
- 2018 Auction – Save the Date
- Become a Member – Winter 2016
- Become a Member Today – Spring 2016
- Double Your Impact – Spring 2016
- Become a Member Today
- TAKE ADVANTAGE of your company’s matching gift program
- Tall Timbers Welcomes New Development Director
- Become a Member Today – Fall 2016
- Stewards of Wildlife and Wildlands
- Kevin's Southern Game Fair
- Dinner & Auction Best Ever
Education/Outreach
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On August 31, 2021, the eye-catching headline “To Stop Extreme Wildfires, California Is Learning From ... Florida?” brought readers and listeners to NPR Morning Edition coverage by Lauren Sommer.
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Hurricane Michael made landfall at 12:30 PM, Wednesday, October 10, near Mexico Beach, Florida with sustained winds of 155 mph. It entered Georgia as a Category 4 storm, and quickly headed to the northeast causing catastrophic damage to timber stands as far north as Albany, Georgia.
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Fire Festival is your chance to get outside and experience, enjoy, and learn about the natural role of fire in the Red Hills Region. It’s a free festival! It’s a good time with live music, prescribed fire demos, live wildlife, wagon ride tours of healthy forests, hands-on fire equipment, kids’ activities, and food vendors.
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George M. Sutton (1898–1982), an esteemed ornithologist, was also one of the preeminent bird artists of the Twentieth Century. He was asked by his friend Thomas D. Burleigh, who worked on his manuscript for Georgia Birds during the 1940s and '50s, to provide the illustrations.
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The 2017 breeding season is in the books, but not without a dramatic late push to the finish line. Despite birds getting out of the gate quickly, with the first nest found on May 1 (about 1 week early than normal), bobwhite per capita production in the Red Hills remained low compared to long-term averages for much of the season.
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Kevin’s Fine Outdoor Gear and Apparel held its 2nd Southern Game Fair Friday, November 10, at Greenwood Plantation Campus in Thomasville, Georgia.
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Join us as we celebrate the bounty of the Red Hills region. Make plans now to attend this unique culinary event as we present true farm-to-fork dining from the harvest of the Red Hills region.
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Tall Timbers is at the center of a revolution in fire science to advance models of fire behavior critical to prescribed fire planning. Nearly all fire modeling tools available to guide fire fighters and prescribed fire planners are built on a faulty assumption about how fire spreads. While these tools are calibrated by users when fires begin, they cannot meet the needs of fire prediction in advance. Coupled fire-atmospheric modeling tools have been available for nearly 20 years, but since many of these required high performing "super computers" to run, they were dismissed as research only.
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When Dr. William Platt established a long-term study of the Woodyard Hammock old-growth beech-magnolia forest on Tall Timbers in 1978, he had hurricanes in mind. He was interested in how tropical storms would contribute to perpetuation of this ancient forest by knocking over or snapping some of the canopy trees and thereby letting light into treefall gaps, where the next generation of trees would compete for light as they grow.
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Morgan Varner has been hired as the Director of Fire Research at Tall Timbers. Tall Timbers has made significant investments in fire research, training, and outreach as a result of the institution’s strategic plan goal to expand, improve and protect the use of prescribed fire.
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Just before the Thanksgiving break, staff with the Stoddard Bird Lab completed the first phase of work needed to establish a new population of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers on Dixie Plantation.
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The Georgia-Florida Turkey Invitational is an annual sporting event benefiting Tall Timbers' Game Bird Program. Teams consist of two members with an entry cost of $500.00 per team. This year's event will feature special guest speaker, Flip Pallot, avid outdoorsman and TV personality.
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By a whopping 83%, Georgians supported the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Amendment (GOSA). This amendment establishes a dedicated funding source that will generate approximately $20 million annually for land and water conservation in the state.
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Join us for the Tall Timbers’ 22nd Annual Kate Ireland Memorial Dinner & Auction, Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 6:00 PM, which honors Gene Phipps. The auction and dinner will be held at Glen Arven Country Club in Thomasville, Georgia.
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Tall Timbers would like to thank all sponsors and participates who supported this year’s Georgia – Florida Turkey Invitational, March 28 and 29, 2019, which was again hosted by Osceola Plantation. We were honored to have legendary fishing legend and avid turkey hunter Flip Pallot as our guest speaker, along with author and journalist Eddie Nickens.
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Kevin’s 5th Annual Southern Game Fair celebrates Thomasville’s authentic historical sporting lifestyle by bringing families and community together to promote the preservation of the longleaf pine forests and the bobwhite […]
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