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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan

The Longleaf Empire – Appalachicola National Forest

Season 3 Episode 312

The once vast Longleaf Pine woodlands once dominated the South with their green, open and grassy expanses. Today this is one of the rarest habitats on the planet reduced to just two percent of its historic extent. Join Patrick as he explores a land filled with some of the strangest plants and animals anywhere in the Apalachicola National Forest, a land kissed by fire.

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