TY - BOOK ID - 77891237 TI - The legacy of a Red Hills hunting plantation : Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy AU - Crawford, Robert L. AU - Brueckheimer, William R. AU - Rogers, William Warren PY - 2012 SN - 081304250X 9780813042503 9780813041483 0813041481 PB - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, DB - UniCat KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Conservation of resources KW - Natural resources KW - Natural resources conservation KW - Resources conservation, Natural KW - Environmental protection KW - Natural resources conservation areas KW - Conservation KW - Tall Timbers Research Station. KW - Tallahassee. KW - Tallahassee (Fla.). KW - Tall Timbers Research, Inc. KW - TTRS KW - Leon County (Fla.) KW - Red Hills (Fla. and Ga.) KW - Leon Co., Fla. KW - History. KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77891237 AB - The Red Hills region is an idyllic setting filled with long leaf pines that stretches from Tallahassee, Florida, to Thomasville, Georgia. At its heart lies Tall Timbers, a former hunting plantation. In 1919, sportsman Henry L. Beadel purchased the Red Hills plantation to be used for quail hunting. As was the tradition, he conducted prescribed burnings after every hunting season in order to clear out the thick brush to make it more appealing to the nesting birds. After the U.S. Forest Service outlawed the practice in the 1920's, condemning it as harmful for the forest and its wildlife, ER -