The Fire Starters

In 2023, I was assigned to photograph this feature story for Audubon magazine. In the Southeast, the fates of longleaf pines and endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers are inextricably tied. To save both, we must remember how to embrace fire.

The article explains the ecological role of fire in the longleaf pine ecosystem and efforts in North Carolina to bring it back. The article was printed in 2023 and is also available online.