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

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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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  High school students participating in the University of Florida's Science Quest summer camp learn how carbon cycles through biological and physical systems as part of the Project Learning Tree/PINEMAP Secondary Module activity "Carbon on the Move." Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  Throughfall exclusion structures at Tier III site in Buckingham County, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Andy Laviner.

  
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  Jill Qi and Aaron Joslin collect soil samples at the PINEMAP Tier III site in Taliaferro County, GA. Photo by Madison Akers.

  
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  Tier III throughfall exclusion and fertilization site in Taylor County, Florida. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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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 Martha Monroe.

  
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  University of Florida M.S. student Maxwell Wightman drills a hole to insert thermal dissipation sensor probes into a tree at the Tier III throughfall exclusion x fertilization site in Taylor County, Florida. Photo courtesy of Geoff Lokuta

  

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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