ALRI Looks to the Future and Celebrates the Past with 2023 Achievements

America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 Range-wide Accomplishment Report celebrating over 2.17 million acres of accomplishments on longleaf lands.  Since 2010, partners have contributed to more than 23.8 million acres of longleaf management activities across the nine-state historic longleaf range, and ALRI is celebrating its initial 15 years of partnership while simultaneously keeping an eye to the future.

“These first 15 years have involved a large list of partners who have contributed to the successes of this truly collaborative initiative,” says Carol Denhof, 2023 Longleaf Partnership Council Chair.  “No one individual, organization, or agency could have accomplished by themselves what ALRI has done collectively.”

In fiscal year 2023 (October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023), ALRI partners:

• Planted 137,858 acres of new longleaf pine
• Protected 30,346 acres through acquisitions and easements
• Applied prescribed fire to over 1.75 million acres
• Performed maintenance activities on 231,122 acres
• Applied silvicultural activities to 6,539 acres to convert existing forestland to longleaf-dominant forests

Renewing the commitment to restore longleaf forests across the Southeast, a new Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and the Interior in a celebratory event in Washington D.C. last year.  That milestone coupled with the release of the new Range-wide Conservation Plan (2025-2040) shines a bright light on the future of longleaf!

The full findings, outcomes, and accomplishments of 2023 can be found here.

Note:  The report covers FY 2023, which ran from October 1, 2022, to September 30, 2023.

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