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Dantzler Nature Preserve Longleaf Pine Restoration Project: MX974390

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Figure 1.  Dantzler Nature Preserve area map. Figure 2.  Dantzler Nature Preserve boundary. Figure 3.  Dantzler tract 1952. Figure 4.  Chinese tallowtrees infesting clearcut area. Figure 5.  Japanese cogongrass along Indian Point Road.
Figure 6.  Dantzler Burn Units (Imagery from 2004). Figure 7.  Prescribed burn on Unit #2 in the winter of 2001. Figure 8.  Dozer shearing stumps and removing logging debris. Figure 9.  Site cleared and ready for tree planting. Figure 10.  Containerized longleaf pine seedling immediately after planting.
Figure 11.  Applying herbicide to Chinese tallowtrees in the fall of 2005. Figure 12.  Applying herbicide to Chinese tallowtrees in the fall of 2005. Figure 13.  Clearcut after gyrotrac treatment. Note several young longleaf pines. Figure 14.  Using gyrotrac to clear heavy brush on Unit #4. Figure 15.  Elevated road between Units #5 & 6 removed and grade restored.
Figure 16.  Area representative of Unit #8 prior to first burn. Figure 17.  Unit #8 after second burn.  Note openness of habitat. Figure 18. Wiregrass (Aristida beyrichiana) flowering in recently burned Unit #8 Figure 19.  Planted longleaf pines initiating height growth, spring 2005  

Gulf of Mexico Program Office
Mail Code: EPA/GMPO
Stennis Space Center, MS 39529-6000
228-688-3726
FAX: 228-688-2709


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