{"id":6107,"date":"2020-02-20T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes-2\/?post=sandhill-restoration-grows-longleaf-habitat"},"modified":"2020-02-21T10:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:58:01","slug":"sandhill-restoration-grows-longleaf-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfsu.org\/local-routes\/2020-02-20\/sandhill-restoration-grows-longleaf-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Restoration Grows Longleaf Habitat at Torreya State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/?p=13615\">our last visit to Torreya State Park<\/a>, we saw a park whose unique tree canopy had been seriously damaged by Hurricane Michael. Today, we see how, in another section of the park, they\u2019ve planted over 1.6 million longleaf pine in an effort to restore sandhill communities surrounding steephead ravines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who\u2019ve visited Torreya State Park, I\u2019ll ask you to remember the drive in. You pass a lot of picturesque rural landscapes, and forest land. It helps set the mood for your remote nature experience in the bluffs overlooking the Apalachicola River. But then, closer to the park, you pass an unsightly expanse of bare earth or two. It\u2019s a momentary break in the scenery. In a few years, though, it might very well be the highlight of the drive.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, some of those bare patches are starting to grow in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you drive in, you\u2019re passing much of our lands.\u201d says Jason Vickery, the park\u2019s manager. \u201cThose open fields of, you know, wiregrass, and little longleaf pines coming up- that\u2019s all efforts you\u2019re seeing that started in the early 2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wfsu.org\/blog-coastal-health\/?p=14280\/LR\">Click here to continue reading about the Longleaf Pine restoration efforts at Torreya State Park. <\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp;our last visit to Torreya State Park, we saw a park whose unique tree canopy had been seriously damaged by Hurricane Michael. 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