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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crawford, Robert L., 1947-
Otros Autores: Brueckheimer, William R., Rogers, William Warren, 1929-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2012.
Temas:
Tall Timbers Research Station.
Tall Timbers Research Station
Conservation of natural resources > Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.)
Conservation of natural resources > Florida.
Conservation des ressources naturelles > Floride.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Conservation of natural resources
Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.) > History.
Leon County (Fla.) > History.
Florida
Florida > Leon County
United States > Red Hills
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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