The long-lived green sea turtle weighs up to 850 pounds (382.5 kg), but anything more than 450 pounds (202.5 kg) is unusual today. The shell is heart-shaped, ...
Found on and around wet sand bars, shoals, seeps, fast-flowing clear rocky streams, wet savanna meadows, shallow depressions in flatwoods, shallow pineland ...
The hawksbill turtle's shell is covered with glossy brown and tan overlapping scutes, or horny plates. It reaches 2 feet (65 cm) long and weighs an average of ...
This publication will provide you with a brief look at freshwater mussels -- what they look like, where they live, what they eat, why they are valuable, how ...
At 19.5 inches (50 cm), the ivory-billed woodpecker is the largest of the North American woodpeckers -- about the size of a crow. A red crest marks the male; ...
Kirtland's warbler is the only gray-backed warbler in the eastern United States that wags its tail. This small songbird is about 4.75 inches long (12 cm) with ...
Through the generations, changing environments cause some living things to flourish, some to linger on the edge of existence, and others to no longer survive. ...
The leatherback lives in the open ocean out to the edge of the continental shelf. Although this species has been found to nest on the Georgia coast, it is most ...
A large-headed turtle with an elongated, heart-shaped shell, the loggerhead has a reddish-brown to brown upper side and yellow to cream underside. Loggerheads ...
Aquatic plant 3-8 centimeters (1.2-3.2in) tall that reproduces by spores. Has five to 10 pointed, stiff and needle-like leaves, about 5-7 centimeters (2-2.8 ...
Perennial wildflower with a pale green to dark reddish-purple colored stem about 10 - 25 centimeters (4 - 10 in) long. Stem topped with a whorl of three ...
The piping plover is a small shorebird about 7 inches (17.75 cm) long that resembles a sandpiper. The upper parts of the bird are a light sandy brown while the ...
After hearing the phrase forest certification, many people ask, what, how, and why. This publication helps forest landowners understand forest certification, ...
Thousands of people live in rural forested areas across the state, and although the setting is idyllic for much of the year, each spring and fall brings a ...
Perennial wildflower with three elliptical, pointed leaves about 5 - 13 centimeters (2 - 5 in) long, each mottled in several shades of green. Grows from a ...
The clearcutting controversy is not confined to its relationship to economics or human perceptions of beauty; the controversy extends to environmental concerns ...
The shortnose sturgeon is brown to gray or black on the back, paling to gold or yellow on the sides and to white under-neath. In the Southeast, adults are ...
Perennial, showy orchid 15-25 centimeters (6-10in) tall. Growing from the top of the stem is a single whorl of five to six pale, dusty green, drooping, wide ...
We're finding that more and more cities, villages, neighborhoods and regions are using sustainable development as a guiding principle not only for near-term ...
Perennial showy wildflower with erect, smooth, single stems 0.5-1 meter (1.6-3.3ft) tall that grow in clumps or patches. Grows from a thick fleshy, branched, ...
The Southern Center for Sustainable Forests provides innovative research and practical applications for enhancing sustainable forest management on industrial ...
The spotfin chub measures about 3.4 inches (8.5 cm). It is light olive on the back and pales to silver below. There is a distinct lateral line from which gold ...
Pine seedlings should also carry this label. They are fragile. Many landowners spend large sums of money on site preparation and planting of their pine ...
The purposes of this Act are: to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend may be conserved; to provide a ...
Green Pitcherplant (Sarracenia oreophila)
