The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation : Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy.

By: Crawford, Robert LContributor(s): Brueckheimer, William RMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813042503Subject(s): Leon County (Fla.) - HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation : Tall Timbers Research Station and Land ConservancyDDC classification: 333.72759/88 LOC classification: S932.F6 -- C73 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- The Benefactors -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Appendix 1: Beadel Fellows -- Appendix 2: Alphabetical Listing of Board of Trustees, 1958-2008 -- Appendix 3: Conferences and Publications -- Appendix 4: Tall Timbers Land Conservancy Appendixes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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 quail population diminished dramatically. Astonished by this loss and encouraged by his naturalist friend Herbert L. Stoddard, Beadel set his sights on conserving the land in order to study the effects of prescribed burnings on wildlife. Upon his death in 1958, Beadel donated the entire Tall Timbers estate to be used as an ecological research station. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation traces Beadel's evolution from sportsman and naturalist to conservationist. Complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished, rare vintage photographs, it follows the transformation of the plantation into what its founders envisioned--a long-term plot study station, independent of government or academic funding and control.
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Cover -- Contents -- The Benefactors -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Appendix 1: Beadel Fellows -- Appendix 2: Alphabetical Listing of Board of Trustees, 1958-2008 -- Appendix 3: Conferences and Publications -- Appendix 4: Tall Timbers Land Conservancy Appendixes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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 quail population diminished dramatically. Astonished by this loss and encouraged by his naturalist friend Herbert L. Stoddard, Beadel set his sights on conserving the land in order to study the effects of prescribed burnings on wildlife. Upon his death in 1958, Beadel donated the entire Tall Timbers estate to be used as an ecological research station. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation traces Beadel's evolution from sportsman and naturalist to conservationist. Complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished, rare vintage photographs, it follows the transformation of the plantation into what its founders envisioned--a long-term plot study station, independent of government or academic funding and control.

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