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Author Crawford, Robert L.

Title The legacy of a Red Hills hunting plantation : Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy / Robert L. Crawford and William R. Brueckheimer ; with editorial contributions by William Warren Rogers.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Tall Timbers: the plantation era -- 1. The Red Hills: from cotton to quail -- 2. The Beadels in the Red Hills -- 3. Herbert L. Stoddard and the Komareks -- 4. WCTV, the spark -- 5. The founding -- Part II; Ecological research and outreach -- 6. Classic and early long-term studies -- 7. Spreading the word -- 8. Invertebrate studies -- 9. Vertebrate studies -- 10. The red-cockaded woodpecker -- 11. Game bird research: the modern era -- 12. The Wade tract -- 13. Plant communities, fire, and land management -- Part III: Evolving the institution -- 14. Tall Timbers Land Conservancy: from association to accreditation -- 15. The present-day organization and its evolution -- 16. The next half-century -- Part IV: Real estate and resources -- 17. Holdings and intellectual resources.
Summary The Red Hills region is an idyllic setting filled with longleaf pines that stretches from Tallahassee, Florida, to Thomasville, Georgia. At its heart lies Tall Timbers, a former hunting plantation. In 1919, sportsman Henry L. Beadel purchased the Red Hills plantation to be used for quail hunting. As was the tradition, he conducted prescribed burnings after every hunting season in order to clear out the thick brush to make it more appealing to the nesting birds. After the U.S. Forest Service outlawed the practice in the 1920s, condemning it as harmful for the forest and its wildlife, the quai.
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Subject Tall Timbers Research Station.
Tall Timbers Research Station.
Tall Timbers Research Station.
Conservation of natural resources -- Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.)
Conservation of natural resources.
Conservation of natural resources -- Florida.
Florida.
Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.) -- History.
Leon County (Fla.) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
History.
Added Author Brueckheimer, William R.
Rogers, William Warren, 1929-2017.
Other Form: Print version: Crawford, Robert L. Legacy of a Red Hills hunting plantation. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012 9780813041483 (DLC) 2012009814 (OCoLC)777602105
ISBN 9780813042503 (electronic book)
081304250X (electronic book)
9780813041483
0813041481