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199 n o t e s introduction Forestry beyond One Generation 1. On Stoddard’s background, see Herbert L. Stoddard, Memoirs of a Naturalist (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969); and Albert G. Way, “Burned to Be Wild: Science, Society, and Ecological Conservation in the Southern Longleaf Pine” (PhD diss., University of Georgia, 2008). 2. On sharecropping in the South at large, see Pete Daniel, Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985); and Jack Temple Kirby, Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). On the Red Hills specifically, see William Warren Rogers, Transition to the Twentieth Century: Thomas County, Georgia, 1900–1920 (Tallahassee: Sentry Press, 2002); Clifton Paisley, From Cotton to Quail: An Agricultural Chronicle of Leon County, Florida, 1860–1967 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1968); and Way, “Burned to Be Wild.” 3. For a description of the hunt, see George M. Humphrey and Shepard Krech, The Georgia-Florida Field Trial Club, 1916–1948 (New York: Scribner Press, 1948). 4. Herbert L. Stoddard, The Bobwhite Quail: Its Habits, Preservation, and Increase (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931); Way, “Burned to Be Wild.” For more on the history of wildlife management, see Thomas R. Dunlap, Saving America’s Wildlife: Ecology and the American Mind, 1850– 1990 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988); Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988); and Julianne Lutz Newton, Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006). 5. The Fire Forest: Longleaf Pine–Wiregrass Ecosystem (Covington, Ga.: Georgia Wildlife Press, Georgia Wildlife Federation, 2001). For a good treatment of the history and ecology of the longleaf forest, see Lawrence Earley, Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004). On one of the 200 notes to introduction earliest fire advocates, see Elizabeth Finley Shores, On Harper’s Trail: Roland McMillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). 6. Timothy Silver, A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 12–15; Earley, Looking for Longleaf, 18. 7. Roland Harper, “Geography and Vegetation of Northern Florida,” in Florida State Geological Survey, Sixth Annual Report, ed. E. H. Sellards (Tallahassee: State Geological Survey, 1914); Steve Gatewood et al., A Comprehensive Study of a Portion of the Red Hills Region of Georgia (Thomasville, Ga.: Thomas College Press, 1994). 8. E. V. Komarek, “The Natural History of Lightning Fire,” Proceedings Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 3 (1964): 139–83; Stephen J. Pyne, Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildlife and Rural Fire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982). 9. For the contours of this debate, see Paul A. Delcourt, Hazel R. Delcourt, Dan F. Morse, and Phyllis A. Morse, “History, Evolution, and Organization of Vegetation and Human Culture,” in Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States: Lowland Terrestrial Communities, ed. William H. Martin, Stephen G. Boyce, and Arthur C. Echternacht (New York: Wiley, 1993), 47–80; W. A. Watts, and B. C. S. Hansen, “Pre-Holocene and HolocenePollenRecordsofVegetationHistoryfromtheFloridaPeninsula and Their Climatic Implications,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 109 (1994): 163–76; Cecil Frost, “History and Future of the Longleaf Pine Ecosystem,” and D. Bruce Means, “Vertebrate Faunal Diversity of Longleaf Pine Ecosystems,” in The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration, ed. Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, and Deborah L. Miller (New York: Springer, 2006), 9–42, 157–216. 10. W. G. Wahlenberg, Longleaf Pine: Its Use, Ecology, Regeneration, Protection, Growth, and Management (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1946); Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, and Deborah L. Miller, eds., The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration (New York: Springer, 2006). 11. Earley, Looking for Longleaf, 38–40. At small scales, the longleaf understory rivals rainforest areas in diversity of plant species, though as the scale gets larger, rainforests quickly surpass longleaf forests in numbers of species. notes to introduction 201 12. Bruce Means, “Longleaf Pine Forest, Going, Going . . . ,” in Eastern Old-Growth Forests: Prospects for Rediscovery and Recovery, ed. Mary Byrd Davis (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996), 210–29. 13. Herbert L. Stoddard, Henry L. Beadel, and E. V. Komarek, The Cooperative Quail Study Association, July 1, 1934–April 15, 1943, Misc. Pub. no...