The pine forests that once covered much of the South could be part of an answer to water scarcity problems in the future.
A recent study published in the journal, Science of The Total Environment, finds that healthy longleaf pine forests keep more water in streams.
While Georgia generally gets a lot of rain, in drought years things can get tight – enough so that Georgia, Alabama and Florida have argued for decades over shared water resources.
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