The Pines: Southern Forests

(Hardback)

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The Pines is a photographic exploration looking at remnants of the momentous and sacred old-growth longleaf pinelands across the southeastern United States. Historically, this was once one of America's most significant landscapes. This book is Chuck Hemard's experience in the present that gives a tiny glimpse of insight into both past and future.

Chuck Hemard has work included in public collections across the southeast United States, including the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus GA and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans.

Nick Norwood is a professor of creative writing at Columbus State University and the director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in Columbus, Georgia and Nyack, New York.

Dr. Rebecca Barlow

, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Specialist and Associate Professor, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

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Chuck Hemard has work included in public collections across the southeast United States, including the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus GA and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Nick Norwood, Poet and Director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University Columbus, Georgia - Rebecca Barlow - Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Auburn, Alabama. -This brief essay provides context for the images, a historical overview of the of this landscape and its ecology and how it changed to look the way it does today across the deep south.