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Timber production shifted to the uniform loblolly pine plantations of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas.

At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.

Probably a Pinus taeda, or loblolly pine, a slender conifer native to the Southeastern United States.

Vestiges of a past or harbingers of the future, the skeletons of once mighty oaks and elegant loblolly pines defy efforts to wholly preserve Tubman’s memory on these lands.

A loblolly pine in the Southeast and a ponderosa pine in the West grow at vastly different rates, complicating efforts to define maturity as a set number of years across multiple species.