Mapping the future of southern pine management in a changing world.

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  Throughfall exclusion structures visible in a November 2012 Google Earth image of the Tier III site in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

  
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  Maxwell Wightman, PINEMAP graduate student, shows participants how to use a homemade clinometer to measure tree height. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  This photo shows the drainage design on the rainfall exclusion structures at the Tier III throughfall exclusion x fertilization site in Taylor County, Florida. Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Lokuta.

  
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  The green shaded area in this map depicts the native range of loblolly pine; blue tags show collaborating institutions and yellow circles show locations of manipulative field experiments to examine the interaction of soil nutrient and water availability. Remote sensing image courtesy Google Earth; range map courtesy USDA Forest Service.

  
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  Brittany Baggett (left), a 2013 undergraduate fellow from the University of West Florida, helps launch a weather balloon at the Oklahoma State University research station in Idabel, OK. Photo courtesy of Casey Meeks.

  
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  High school students participating in the University of Florida's Science Quest summer camp measure trees and calculate the amount of carbon stored in trees as part of the Project Learning Tree/PINEMAP Secondary Module activity "Counting the Carbon." Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  Graduate student mentor Elizabeth Wilson (left) and undergraduate fellow Madison Wigley (right) record pine needle fascicle lengths in a greenhouse experiment at Texas A&M University. Photo courtesy of Ayumi Hyodo.

  

PINEMAP Collaborators

Universities

University of Florida | Alcorn State University | University of Georgia | Auburn University | Mississippi State University | North Carolina A & T University | North Carolina State University |
Oklahoma State University | Texas A & M University | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Virginia State University

University-Corporate-Governmental Research Cooperatives

Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program | Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | Forest Biology Research Cooperative | Forest Modeling Research Cooperative |
Forest Productivity Cooperative | Plantation Management Research Cooperative | Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium | Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program

Other

U.S. Forest Service | Southern Regional Extension Forestry | Southeast Climate Consortium | Additional Supporters

The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agricultural Project funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Award #2011-68002-30185.

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• May 09, 2026
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