Tall Timbers Research Station

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TALL TIMBERS
Research Station & Land Conservancy
ANNUAL REPORT 2007
Mission
The mission of Tall Timbers Research Station is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation
and education. Our primary research focus is the ecology of fire and natural resource management including bobwhite
quail and other wildlife in the southeastern coastal plain. Our conservation efforts are dedicated to helping protect
the distinctive Red Hills landscape of south Georgia and north Florida, and its traditional land uses. Our education
program transfers research and conservation information for resource management.
Exemplary Land Stewardship (ELS) balances ecological values and economic utility within a framework of long-term
conservation. The foundation of ELS on upland habitats in the Red Hills is the frequent use of fire to accommodate
management for bobwhite quail, selection timber harvest, and other traditional land uses. Scenic, open, multi-aged
forest structure is fundamental to ELS.
Executive Director’s Report
By Lane Green, Executive Director
2007 was a fabulously successful year for Tall Timbers.
We received more easements (23) and more acres protected
(30,154) in one year than ever before in our history. The
easement blitz was stimulated by the two year Federal Tax
enhanced benefit package that sunset on December 31,
2007. Hopefully, these enhanced benefits will return if Congress can ever get the Farm Bill passed in 2008.
2007 was also our best fundraising year ever with record
numbers of memberships and annual contributions for
special research and conservation projects. 2007 was also an
important year where planning for future activities laid the
foundation for things to come in 2008 and beyond. The first
of these was planning for our 50th Anniversary Celebration
in 2008. We set an ambitious schedule for a multitude of
events and activities to honor, remember and recognize the
special people, places and events in our history including
publishing our 50th year history.
In 2007, we also put the finishing touches on our planning to go through the accreditation process for our easement program in 2008. The Land Trust Alliance, after years
of input from land trust organization’s all across the nation,
including Tall Timbers, and with encouragement from
Congress and with more scrutiny of easement transactions
Contents
Chairman’s Message ...........................................3
Research & Land Management .........................4
2007 Research Publications .............................7
Tall Timbers Land Conservancy ........................8
Information Resources ......................................12
2–tall timbers research station & LAND CONSERVANCY
by the IRS, has developed and
tested professional standards
and practices for Land Trust
activities involving easement
transactions. Matter of fact,
Congress has said we must do a
better job of policing ourselves
or they will do it for us. Tall
Timbers hopes to be accredited
in the first round in 2008 as we
helped develop and utilize many
of these standards and practices.
It is because of the efforts of so many people over 50
years that we have been successful in our “quest for ecological understanding” as first described by our founders. As a
result of this quest, we have practiced and preached exemplary land stewardship, including the use of fire, throughout
our region and beyond. I look forward to seeing many of you
on our campus in 2008 to help us celebrate and so we can
recognize and thank you, our loyal friends and members for
your continuing generous support as we get ready to embark
on our next 50 years.
Development................................................13
Donors.........................................................14
Statement of Financial Position ..............24
2007 Staff and Associates .......................25
Partners ....................................................26
About the Cover
Pond cypress on the Aucilla River, a Special
Natural Area on Pinion Point Plantation
conservation easement.
Photo by Christine Ambrose.
Chairman’s Message
By David Perkins, Chairman
I am extremely proud to serve as chairman of Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy. More so today than ever before, we face enormous challenges in protecting our open
landscapes, wildlife and habitat, and in preserving the tradition that is so well defined by the
greater Red Hills region. We have neither the luxury of time nor the abundance of natural
resources to manage these lands through trial and error — and we often learn that these trials
have irreversible consequences. We have to be excellent land stewards — from preserving the
landscape and its species to passing these remarkable places on to the next generation. We are
very fortunate to have an organization such as Tall Timbers which, through its scientific discipline and land management expertise, can assist us.
Tall Timbers Research, Inc.
2007 Board of Trustees
Chairman
Mr. David D. Perkins
Chairman Emeritus
Miss Kate Ireland
Vice-Chairmen
Dr. L. Wes Burger, Jr.
Dr. Philip C. Watt
Secretary
Mrs. Daphne F. Wood
The resources of Tall Timbers are extensive – with land managers and planners, and
research scientists with expertise in quail management, fire ecology, vertebrate ecology research,
and forestry. Add to this the assets of the research center and the surrounding land covering
4000 acres, and we have a remarkable organization like none other in this country. The work
that Tall Timbers is already doing to preserve what is so close to all our hearts is incredible.
We have the leading authority on bobwhite quail in the southeast, as well as an internationally
recognized fire ecology team that provides leadership far beyond the Red Hills. Our goal is to
promote the proper use of fire as a management tool and also to protect the right to use it. Tall
Timbers will host the 24th Annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference in January 2009.
The theme will be the Future of Prescribed Fire: Public Awareness, Health, and Safety. Tall
Timbers Land Conservancy is a leader in protecting land through conservation easements, one
of the most effective tools to assure our open lands are preserved for the generations who will
follow us. To date more than 100,000 acres have already been protected through easements –
and there are exciting plans to increase it to 200,000 acres in the coming years.
I am committed to making sure that the resources of this great organization are available
and helpful to the land owners and managers in order to help them be the best land stewards
they can be. Please support Tall Timbers and put this one-of-a-kind resource to work for you.
Assistant Secretary
Mrs. Robert C. Webster, Jr.
Treasurer
Mr. Thomas A. Barron
Trustees
Mrs. Kathy R. Archibald
Mrs. Richard A. Corbett
Mrs. Edward A. Davis, Jr.
Dr. David M. Engle
Mr. O. Mason Hawkins
Mr. Rhett Johnson
Mr. A. Lawton Langford
Mr. Leigh H. Perkins, Sr.
Mr. Timothy B. Pirrung
Mr. Thomas L. Rankin
Mr. Michael D. Shea
Dr. George W. Simmons
Mr. John Thompson
Mr. Ebe Walter
Mr. J. Ben Watkins, III
Executive Director
Mr. Lane Green
Annual Report Editing & Design
Rose Rodriguez
Tall Timbers Board of Trustees on the Beadel House porch. Back row (L-R): George Simmons, John Thompson, Ben Watkins, Kathy Archibald,
Mike Shea, Kate Ireland, Mason Hawkins, Dave Perkins, Tom Rankin, Cindy Webster, Lawton Langford, Tim Pirrung. Front row standing (L-R):
Rhett Johnson, Wes Burger, Tom Barron, David Engle. Not pictured: Cornelia Corbett, Rozzie Davis, Leigh Perkins, Ebe Walter, Philip Watt,
Daphne Wood. Photo by Betsy Barfield.
2007 annual report–3
Research & Land Management
By Ronald (Ron) E. Masters, Ph.D., Director of Research
Another successful year is in the books. We have continued
a host of research projects and have been very active in local
and regional outreach efforts. Research staff worked closely
together this past spring to lay the ground work and come to
a consensus on thinning of selected areas on Tall Timbers.
Staff also has been engaged with 18 visiting researchers from
a variety of universities and other institutions. We appreciate
very much the strong contributions that our seven Research
Associates continue to make. This year has been another
great one with many highlights and continuation of innovative research and land management.
We continue to enjoy and benefit from our station
partners, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. National Park
Service, U.S. Forest Service, and The Nature Conservancy.
Through the Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership, our partners have also been collaborators on projects related to fuels
management treatments and determination of burn severity
on public lands across varied cover types.
2007 Research and Land Management Highlights
Research Administration
Research staff and visiting scientists published 17 articles
in peer-reviewed outlets and 5 extension or popular articles
as part of our outreach effort. An additional 3 manuscripts
were submitted.
Research staff served on 13 graduate student committees
at 5 different universities.
Research Staff made 16 scientific presentations at state,
regional, national and international conferences, seminars or
workshops. Of these 14 were invited.
Over $2.8 million in grants were submitted.
The Director of Research was an invited speaker at the
Fire History Workshop held at the University of Missouri.
Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Highway
Patrol, and Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan.
Outreach projects included working with the National
Prescribed Fire Training Center, local Boy Scout Troops,
Youth Hunting Field Day with Florida Fish and Wildlife
Commission, Quality Deer Management Association,
Wheelin’ Sportsman Hunts, Leadership Tallahassee, Leadership Thomasville and many others.
A major effort was undertaken to renovate and repair
housing facilities and clean up the grounds.
Game Bird
Field work was conducted to monitor bobwhite movements,
nesting, and reproductive success during our timber thinning and during one of the worst droughts recorded on Tall
Timbers. Concurrently we were monitoring longleaf-wiregrass areas and birds on those native areas did very well.
Our genetics study continued with over 2000 bobwhites
now genotyped. This study is seeking to understand relatedness of parental pairs and covey members, and the prevalence of extra pair paternity and relative contribution of nest
dumping in bobwhite reproduction.
We had two publications in the Journal of Wildlife Management on potential radio-transmitter effects on bobwhite
survival which demonstrated no effect of radio-transmitters
on bobwhite survival in this part of the southeast.
The Upland Ecosystem Restoration Project, under Biologist Greg Hagan’s guidance, worked to develop management plans and assist with implementation of management
on more than 70,000 acres of public land enrolled across
Florida.Management applied included frequently-applied
prescribed fire, and appropriate management of vegetation to
recover bobwhites and other declining species.
The Director of Research received the Regional Forester
Honor Award for Technology Transfer from the USFS.
Land Management
Eric Staller, Natural resources Coordinator oversaw the
timber thinning and clean-up operation during a very dry
summer. Some additional off-site upland hardwoods were
removed as part of this project.
Yet another successful prescribed burn was conducted on
the median of the Kate Ireland Parkway (Highway 319) by
the partnership of Tall Timbers, Florida Division of Forestry,
Ryan Miller released a male Northrn bobwhite as part of our long-term study on
movement ecology of the bird.
Collaboration was initiated with Florida A&M University to characterize wildland fire particulate emissions (PM
2.5) to distinguish them from other sources of air pollution. Data has been collected at Tall Timbers with help from
the Land Management staff. Three new graduate students through Louisiana State
University began working on native pinelands in Florida. Forestry
The first red-cockaded woodpecker hatched on Tall Timbers in over 25 years is shown
following banding.
Vertebrate Ecology
Red-cockaded woodpeckers, released on Tall Timbers in
2006, produced the first successful nest on the Station in
over 25 years. Two nestling woodpeckers were banded by Jim
Cox and Joshua McCormick this past spring. Four additional pairs of woodpeckers were released in the fall of 2007.
Our continuing efforts to study Bachman’s sparrows
and season of burning have led to the development of new
procedures for monitoring sparrow demographics on public
lands. Scores of nests have been located this year. More birds
have been banded for this study than have ever been banded
previously in all other studies put together.
A thinning was completed
on the central portion of
Tall Timbers, based on
our timber inventory from
last year. A portion of the
proceeds were added to
the Forestry Endowment
and the remainder put in a
special fund used for longleaf
restoration on Tall Timbers.
Special thanks are due to Eric Young longleaf in the grass stage are
Staller for overseeing this
poised to bolt following a strategic thinning
that opens up the canopy.
effort on Tall Timbers.
The vacant Forestry Scientist position was re-announced
and advertised.
New Safe Harbor Agreements have been developed and
signed for two properties in Florida’s new program. A thorough inventory was conducted for Red-cockaded woodpecker
cavities on the Wade Tract and 179 have been documented.
Research on Brown-headed Nuthatch culminated with
the publication of an award-winning article by Jim Cox on
the breeding biology of the Brown-headed Nuthatch in The
Wilson’s Journal of Ornithology.
Fire Ecology
Pebble Hill Fire Plots: Research continues on 1-7 year
interval prescribed fire plots; testing the effects of different
fire regimes on native longleaf pine-wiregrass species composition, hardwood growth, fuel loads, fire behavior, pine
regeneration, and soil chemistry.
Stoddard Fire Plots soil research - Research continued
on fire regime effects on soil carbon storage at Tall Timbers. Results of research were presented to the Florida Governor’s Cabinet and Dr. Kevin Robertson was appointed to a
Technical Working Group to support the Governor’s Action
Committee on Climate Change. Early results are creating a
great deal of interest about prescribed burning frequency and
carbon sequestration.
Before and after thinning. Dense stands provide little value for wildlife. They require
thinning and burning to improve habitat conditions and keep them vigorously growing
and healthy.
Beadel Fellows
The Beadel Fellow Program at Tall Timbers supports retired
senior naturalists and scientists on projects that further
the mission of Tall Timbers. The Beadel Fellow Program
continued its long-standing support of senior naturalists or
scientists on projects that further our mission at Tall Timbers. Mr. Angus Gholson, a long-time Beadel Fellow, served
his final year in this capacity. His service to Tall Timbers
has been noteworthy. In addition to being an ambassador for
Tall Timbers, he has mentored station scientists and biologist through his 17 years of service. He also has assisted with
the Robert Godfrey Herbarium and completed the Pebble
Hill Flowering Plants Project which has been compiled into
a searchable database for determination of flowering dates of
the most common plants.
Dr. Gil Nelson and Drs. Dave and Sandy Ligon continued service as Beadel Fellows this year. Gil continued his
assistance with updating the taxonomic names in our herbarium and has been working to get our herbarium database
online for access by others. Dave and Sandy have been assisting Jim Cox with research on red-cockaded woodpeckers,
brown-headed nuthatches and Bachman’s sparrows. We are
pleased to be able to make use of this wealth of knowledge
and expertise from our Beadel Fellows.
This year Dr. Jeff Glitzenstein and Dr. Donna Streng
have been added as Beadel Fellows. They received a fellowship to re-census the vegetation on the Stoddard Fire Plots.
They completed both the herbaceous vegetation and woody
vegetation census work this year on the unburned control
units and the 1-4 year dormant season burn units.
Drs. Jeff Glitzenstein and Donna Streng conducting vegetation sampling on the Stoddard
Fire Plots.
2007 Research Publications – Staff & Associates
Scientific
Cox, J. A. and G. L. Slater. 2007. Cooperative breeding in Brown-headed Nuthatch. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(1): 1-8.
Cox, J. A. and C. C. NeSmith. 2007. Acadian Flycatcher caught in the web of a golden silk orb-weaver. Florida Field Naturalist 35(2): 46-48.
Cox, J. A. and C. D. Jones. 2007. Home range and survival characteristics of male Bachman’s Sparrows in an old-growth forest managed with breeding season
burns. Journal of Field Ornithology 78(3): 263-269.
Folk, T. H., J. B. Grand, W. E. Palmer, J. P. Carroll, D. C. Sisson, T. M. Terhune, S. D. Wellendorf, H. L. Stribling. 2007. Estimates of Survival from
Radiotelemetry: a Response to Guthery and Lusk. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(4): 1027– 1033.
Gunzburger, M.S. 2007. Habitat segregation in two sister taxa of Hylid treefrogs. Herpetologica 63(3):301-310.
Jones, C. D., J. R. Troy, and L. Y. Pomara. 2007. Similarities between Campephilus woodpecker double raps and mechanical sounds produced by duck flocks.
Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(2): 259-262.
Jones, C. D. and J. A. Cox. 2007. Field procedures for netting Bachman’s Sparrows. North American Bird Bander 32(3): 114-117.
Masters, R. E. 2007. Shortleaf pine fire ecology and management. Southern Fire Encyclopedia, web publication; http://www.fire.forestencyclopedia.net/
Encyclopedia_Page.2003-10-15.5050/Encyclopedia_Page.2007-02-14.0850. 38 pages.
Masters, R. E. 2007. The importance of shortleaf pine for wildlife and diversity in mixed oak-pine forests and in pine-grassland woodlands. Pages 35-46 in:
USDA Forest Service, North Central Experiment Station, General Technical Report GTR NRS-P-15.
Masters, R. E. and K. E. M. Galley (eds.). 2007. Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems.
Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL. 261 pages.
Masters, R. E., S. D. Kreiter, and M. S. Gregory. 2007. Dynamics of an old-growth hardwood-Pinus forest over 98 years. Proceedings of the Oklahoma
Academy of Science 87: 15-30.
McDonough, C. M., J. M. Lockhart, and W. J. Loughry. 2007. Population dynamics of nine-banded armadillos: insights from a removal experiment.
Southeastern Naturalist 6(3):381-392.
Ostertag, T. E. and K. M. Robertson. 2007. A comparison of native versus old-field vegetation in upland pinelands managed with frequent fire, south Georgia,
USA. Pages 109-120 in R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and
Shrubland Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.
Palmer, W. E. and S. D. Wellendorf. 2007. Effects of radiotransmitters on northern bobwhite annual survival. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(4):
1281-1287.
Picotte, J. J., D. M. Rosenthal, J. M. Rhode, M. B. Cruzan. 2007. Plastic responses to temporal variation in moisture availability: consequences for water use
efficiency and plant performance. Oecologia 153: 821-832.
Robertson, K. M. and T. E. Ostertag. 2007. Effects of land use on fuel characteristics and fire behavior in pinelands of southwest Georgia, U.S.A. Pages
181-191 in R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference: Fire in Grassland and Shrubland
Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.
Sparks, J. C., R. E. Masters, D. M. Engle, G. A. Bukenhofer, and M. E. Payton. 2007. Comparison of BEHAVE predictions with observed fire behavior
varying by season and frequency. Pages 170-180 in R.E. Masters and K.E.M. Galley (eds.). Proceedings of the 23rd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference:
Fire in Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems. Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.
Extension
Masters, R. E. and K. M. Robertson. 2007. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology “Stoddard” Fire Plots. Tall Timbers Fact Sheet No. 1. 4 pages.
Masters, R. E., K. M. Robertson, W. E. Palmer, J. A. Cox, K. McGorty, L. Green, C. E. Ambrose. 2007. Red Hills Forest Stewardship Guide, 2nd Edition.
Tall Timbers Miscellaneous Publication No. 12. 78 pages.
Tyrl, R. J., T. G. Bidwell, R. E. Masters, R. D. Elmore, and J. R. Weir. 2007. Oklahoma’s Native Vegetation Types. Oklahoma State University, Natural
Resource Ecology & Management; Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Stillwater. E-993. 13 pages.
Popular
Robertson, K. M. 2007. The fire forest: prescribed fire is a management tool in southern pine forests. Tree Farmer, March/April: 6-10.
Rodriguez, R. 2007. Upland ecosystem restoration project works to keep the bobwhite calling in Florida. Florida Wildlife. September/October: 66-67.
Grant Report
Masters, R. E., J. Waymire, C. McKinley. 2007. Progress Report: Forest Stewardship Grant, Forest Wildlife Assistance. 41 pages.
Masters, R. E. 2007. Response of northern bobwhite to managed forest landscapes. Northern bobwhite fall and winter food habits in restored pine-bluestem
habitats. Final Report to USDA-Forest Service, Poteau Ranger District, Waldron, Arkansas. 45 pages.
Vertebrate Ecology intern Emily Pipher and Jim Cox, head of the Vertebrate Ecology program at Tall Timbers, set out mist nets at the Wade Tract Preserve to catch Bachman’s Sparrows for banding.
Graduate student Clark Jones (inset, holding captured sparrow) and Jim published an article about using mist nets in the North American Bander, “Field procedures for netting Bachman’s Sparrows.”
Land Conservancy
By Kevin McGorty, Director Tall Timbers Land Conservancy
In 2007, Tall Timbers Land Conservancy reached a milestone. By closing on twenty three donated conservation easements
that saved more than 30,000 acres, Tall Timbers went over the 108,000-acre mark of land protected in southwest Georgia and
north Florida. This accelerated pace of land conservation was due to the expanded federal tax incentives that enabled the organization to triple its business in one year. Easements were secured along key watersheds, including the Ochlockonee, Aucilla,
and Flint Rivers. Additional lands were saved in the Red Hills while new service areas were created in the greater Moultrie and
Albany, Georgia region resulting in significant easement projects.
Because of TTLC’s banner easement year, space will not allow us to individually profile each project, but have placed
them in the context of the resources that they are helping conserve.
Riparian Corridors
Ochlockonee River
Key easements were secured along rivers and streams critical to water quality and habitat protection. Starting in Leon
County, Florida, another phased easement was completed
on River Ridge Plantation owned by James Dahl. This
614-acre phased easement is particularly significant as it
contains mature high quality floodplain forests associated
with the river. Traveling northward around the river bend
just across the state line in Grady County, Tall Timbers
received a 2,838-acre donation on Deerwood. This magnificent property has been in the Reid family since 1947 and
used primarily for timber and wildlife management. The
property contains four miles of river frontage supporting
large bald cypress
trees and hardwood swamps.
Helping facilitate
this easement was
financial support
from the Doris
Duke Charitable
Foundation with
funds administered by The
Conservation
Fund.
Sisters Jane Preyer (l) and Kathleen Scott (r), along with their
Creeks
brother, Dr. James Reid, donated a 2,838-acre easement for
and
tributaries
their beautiful Deerwood property in Grady County, Georgia.
form the lifeblood for any river system, and certainly Tired Creek plays
that role for the Ochlockonee. Meandering up the creek is
the 249-acre conservation easement on Gadwall property
owned by Sloan Howard. The bottomlands provide habitat
for a number of wildlife species including wild turkey and
Florida black bear. Moving outside the Red Hills region,
the Ochlockonee River
narrows as it gets closer
to its source. Saving
the upper Ochlockonee
waters is a key goal of
our Land Conservancy in
keeping the river healthy.
Tall Timbers closed on a
number of properties for
that purpose. Thomasville
businessman Bill Ponder The Rocky Ford Timber Land easement donation
by Mr. Hoyt Whelchel (above) and his family
and his family donated
adds to Tall Timbers’ protection efforts with
a 375-acre easement on
Nestledown that included other properties in the Upper Ochlockonee River
Watershed.
74 acres of rich river bottomlands. The habitats support a diverse flora and fauna and
protect the riparian corridor along the river.
Moving northward through the rolling topography of
the Tifton Upland District, one passes the 597-acre Rocky
Ford Timber Land. Former attorney Hoyt Whelchel and his
family have enjoyed the property for its great recreational
hunting from quail in the uplands to deer and turkey in the
bottomlands.
Mr. Whelchel’s former law partner, John M. Carlton,
Jr., and his family also donated a significant easement in
2007, becoming the first donated conservation easement
in Colquitt County, Georgia. The Carlton Farms property
encompasses some 1,175 acres. The majority of the property’s uplands contain longleaf pine forests with high quality
native groundcover. Associated with these longleaf pine
forests are seepage slopes which contain picturesque pitcher
plant bogs. The upland mixed forests gently grade into bottomland forests associated with the Ochlockonee River, and
a small tributary that eventually flows into the river. State
and Listed species known to occur on the property include
gopher tortoises, hooded and trumpet pitcher plants, Bachman’s sparrows and Henslow’s sparrows.
Attorney John M. Carlton, Jr. (back row, third from right) with his family was the first
of the Moultrie area landowners to donate a conservation easement to Tall Timbers. The
1,175-acre Carlton Farms easement protects longleaf pine forests with native ground cover
and Ochlockonee River bottomlands.
Aucilla River
Mike Shea, owner of Pinion Point Plantation, completed
his final phased 5,678-acre easement for the property. This
phase contains several prominent features of ecological
importance and conservation value including upland pine
forest with intact
native ground cover
and wetlands with
natural plant communities associated
with the Aucilla
River Basin.
Due east of
Pinion Point is
Tamathli PlanSeepage slope on Pinion Point Conservation Easement
tation situated
within the Aucilla River watershed. The property has been
subdivided between good friends and business associates,
Tom Petway and Mac McGriff, who donated easements on
1,081 acres and 327 acres respectively. Finally, closing out
easements along this watershed was a second phase 321-acre
easement on Pine Fair Plantation owned by Lee and Buck
Mitchell. Their easement protects the beginning of the headwaters of the Aucilla River.
Flint River
At the invitation of
Dr. John Reynolds
and Mike Harrell,
Tall Timbers did its
first conservation
easements in the
lower Flint River. Overlooking the Flint River from the high bluffs of
Their properties,
Capachequi Plantation which was placed under conservation
Capachequi and
easement in 2007.
Outland Plantations, are located north of Bainbridge, Georgia along East River Road (Highway 311). The Capachequi
easement, comprising 669 acres, has approximately 2.4 miles
of frontage along the Flint River which has been designated
as a “High Priority Water” by the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources. Longleaf pine forests grade into mixed
hardwood bluff habitat that adjoins the river. These communities offer critical habitat to migratory songbirds as well as
numerous amphibian and reptile species. The Outland easement, containing 1,245 acres, has approximately 1.9 miles
of frontage along the river. In addition to the river bluff
mixed hardwood forest, significant acreage of bottomland
hardwood forest is located in the northwestern portion of the
easement property. Work on these two important projects
was conducted by Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc.
Warrior and Horse Creeks
North of Moultrie, Georgia along Warrior and Horse Creeks
is a series of properties that have some of the most outstanding longleaf pine and intact native ground cover found in
southwest Georgia. Tall Timbers was privileged to work on
some of these properties in 2007. Prominent businessman
Victor Beadles of the Beadles Lumber Company placed two
of his most prized longleaf pine tracts (Jeffords tract - 1,019
acres and Huber - 396 acres) under conservation easement.
The Huber Tract is
particularly unique
both geologically
and topographically. Atop the
property’s longleaf
pine sandhills are
several picturesque
sandstone rock
outcroppings.
Unusual geological rock out cropping on the Huber Tract
Near the Huber conservation easement donated by Victor Beadles.
Tract is Quailridge Plantation. The property has been under
the ownership of the Norman Family since the early nineteen
hundreds. The property is largely forested in natural longleaf
pine and mixed pine stands. Historically these natural pine
forests were tapped for turpentine production, but under the
current ownership timber management and fee hunting is
the principal land use practice. T. Edwin Norman placed a
291-acre portion of the property under easement.
North of Quailridge is Arrowhead Farms owned by the
Jeter and King families. The 482-acre conservation easement
lands are leased to Quailridge Plantation for pen raised quail
hunting. The property’s intact wiregrass is equally employed
for revenue via non-destructive seed collection methods.
The wiregrass seed is consequently sold for pineland restora– Riparian Corridors continued on p. 10
tion efforts. The long term
management goal of the
landowners is to maintain
timber production, the
natural landscape characteristics, and biodiversity.
In addition, the property’s
planted pine stands are
gradually being restored
Longleaf pine wiregrass forest Special Natural toward a more naturally
Area on Arrowhead Farms in Worth County, GA forested condition.
Great Albany Quail Hunting Plantations
Over 100,000 acres of high quality game bird hunting
lands are located in the Albany, Georgia region. Two of
those properties came under conservation easement in 2007.
Mr. Joe Davenport placed his entire 6,000-acre Wildfair
Plantation in Dougherty County under easement with Tall
Timbers. Once part of an antebellum cotton plantation,
Wildfair grew into a premier quail hunting property through
a series of purchases in the 20th century. One of its owners
was Lambert Johnson of New Jersey, who was affiliated
with his family’s Mead Johnson Company, one of the best
known firms in the infant nutritional field. In the 1940s,
the property was owned by Winston Nuthall, owner of the
Nuthall Candy Company in Atlanta. Mr. Davenport of
Chattanooga, Tennessee acquired Wildfair in 1995 and has
painstakingly cared for it and brought it to its prominence as
a highly successful shooting property.
In neighboring Worth County, Tall Timbers received a
generous easement donation from Iris and Tom Vail for their
magnificent 4,504-acre Wiregrass Plantation. As its name
reflects, the plantation includes significant high quality
longleaf pine/wiregrass forests. This rare forest hosts numerous State Species
of Special Concern
including hooded
pitcher plants,
Bachman’s sparrow,
and gopher tortoise.
Flocks of wintering migratory bird
species, including
fox sparrow and
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Vail (above with manager, Curt Hall)
white crowned
placed their entire 4,504-acre Wiregrass Plantation in
sparrow, enjoy the Worth County, Georgia under conservation easement.
piney woods alongside the northern bobwhite quail and
brown-headed nuthatch. The property’s lowlands host rich
bottomland and slope forests, as well as several wooded first
order streams. These communities offer critical habitat to
neo-tropical migrant songbirds as well as numerous amphibian species.
Hopefully, both Wildfair and Wiregrass conservation
easements will serve as catalysts to encourage other Albany
area landowners to consider conservation options for their
property as well.
Another Special Property
Coming home to the Red Hills,
we close with a small but a significant conservation easement
with Colin Phipps’ The Farm’s
Eden. Located along historic
Meridian Road in Leon County,
Florida, the Farm’s Eden
encompasses 171 acres and is the
site of the internally recognized
Red Hills Horse Trials. There is
no better steward of protecting Kevin McGorty presenting Colin Phipps
north Florida’s indigenous plant with an award for conserving The
heritage than Colin. In the tra- Farm’s Eden at the 2008 Horse Trials
dition of 19th century naturalists, Colin has been fascinated
with a sense of discovery and has nurtured the plants that
make our region distinct. His arboretum is a testament to
this effort.
When the horse trials event closes each spring, this land
returns as it was before the event. The songbirds return to
the forests, the frogs croaking in the swamps, and the pines
echo as the wind dances between their stems.
We gratefully acknowledge the diligence and tenacity
of the Tall Timbers Easement Review Committee (ERC),
whose careful review of projects and tireless dedication
helped make 2007 an extraordinary year for easements.
Members of the Committee include Chairman Daphne
Flowers Wood, Kathy Archibald, Charlie Chapin, Miss Kate
Ireland, and Rhett Johnson. We appreciate the ERC’s hard
work. We could not have had such success without them!
Special thanks also goes to David Copps, Pope Environmental, Inc., and Southern Forestry Consultants who
worked with us on several projects. Their professional assistance with field work and report preparation ensured timely
closing of all our easements.
2007 Tall Timbers Conservation Easements –
30,154 Acres Saved
Easement property
acres saved location
Wiregrass Plantation
4,504 acres
Worth County, GA
Deerwood LLC
2,838 acres
Grady County, GA
– Conservation easements continued on p. 11
– Conservation easements continued from p. 10
Easement property
acres saved location
Arrowhead Farms
482 acres
Worth County, GA
The Neel Farm
192 acres
Thomas County, GA
Quailridge Plantation
291 acres
Worth County, GA
Nestledown Farms
375 acres
Thomas County, GA
Beadles Lumber Co.
1,431 acres
Colquitt & Worth Counties, GA
Pine Fair Plantation Phase III
321 acres
Thomas Co, GA
Carlton Farms
1,175 acres
Colquitt County, GA
Outland Plantation
1,245 acres
Decatur County, GA
Rocky Ford Timber Land LLC
597 acres
Colquitt County, GA
Capechequi Plantation
669 acres
Decatur County, GA
Magnolia Springs
429 acres
Sumter County, GA
Horseshoe Plantation Phase VIII
481 acres
Leon Co, FL
Tamathli Plantation (Petway
Farms, Inc.)
1,081 acres
Brooks Co, GA
RCM Farms
459 acres
Gadsden County, FL
Tamathli Plantation (McGriff
Farm, Inc.)
327 acres
Brooks Co, GA
Oak Hill Phase III
539 acres
Jefferson County, FL
Pinion Point Plantation
5,678 acres
Brooks County, GA
The Farm’s Eden
171 acres
Leon County, FL
Wildfair Plantation
6,000 acres
Baker & Doughtery Counties, GA
River Ridge Plantation Phase II
614 acres
Leon Co, FL
Gadwall, LLC
249 acres
Grady County, GA
Regional Planning & Advocacy
On the planning front in 2007, TTLC staff worked on
numerous projects which are highlighted below.
Red Hills Coastal Parkway
At the urging of Tall Timbers, the Florida Wildlife Federation, 1000 Friends of Florida and other interested groups, the
Capital Regional Transportation Planning Agency dropped a
proposed four-lane toll road in their 2030 Regional Transportation Plan. The proposed Red Hills Coastal Parkway
would have linked US 98, near St. Marks with Interstate
10 in Leon County by traversing through rural Wakulla
County and rural and suburban portions of eastern Leon
County, eventually connecting with Thomasville Road,
north of Chiles High School in the Red Hills.
Proposed Interstate 185 Extension
Even during difficult budget times, there seems to always
be a “pot of gold” for somebody’s dreams of building major
new roads. Unveiled during a December 14, 2006 meeting
in Albany, Georgia were plans to extend Interstate-185 from
Columbus, Georgia through the Red Hills to Monticello,
Florida. The proposed Interstate would follow the path of
existing State Road 520 from Columbus to Albany. From
Albany, the route would follow the existing path of US 19
through Camilla, Pelham, and Thomasville, eventually
connecting with Interstate-10, south of Monticello. Characterized by Don Sims of the Thomasville-Thomas County
Chamber of Commerce as “the road to nowhere,” a recent
public meeting in Thomasville provided a cool reception for
planners of this interstate. TTLC will continue to monitor
this project throughout 2008.
Red Hills Landowner Survey
It is always important to stay in touch with your membership
base to find out what is on their mind. The Red Hills Landowner Survey was mailed in late October to 130 Tall Timbers
members and landowners throughout the Red Hills. The
overall response rate to the survey was 50 percent, which is
outstanding for a mail survey. Here are some of the findings:
When asked to identify the most important assets in
the region, respondents scored the following the highest:
water resources (including rivers, lakes, and groundwater);
forestlands; wildlife resources; and outdoor recreational
opportunities such as hunting and fishing.
Urban sprawl was identified as the most important
challenge facing the region, followed closely by protecting
water quality and the threat posed by major infrastructure
projects (such as the Red Hills Coastal Parkway).
When asked about the pace of development in the Red
Hills, 81 percent stated that it was “too fast” or “much too
fast” while 19 percent thought it was “just right.”
When asked to identify the various roles their land would
play in the next 20 years, 91 percent said hunting land, 74
percent said private residence, 57 percent said forestland, and
4 percent said residential/commercial development.
Nearly 95 percent of respondents reported that easement
protected lands were “very important” or “important” to
the character of the Red Hills. In other words nearly all
landowners, whether or not their land is in an easement,
recognize the importance these lands play in maintaining the
distinct character of the region.
When asked whether Tall Timbers should continue
its involvement in community planning and growth
management issues affecting the Red Hills, 92 percent
either “strongly agreed” or “agreed”. Similarly, 92 percent
either “strongly agreed” or “agreed” that Tall Timbers should
continue to take advocacy positions when approved by the
Board on important issues facing the Red Hills.
Based on the survey, TTLC will continue its community
planning efforts and make greater strides in reaching out
to landowners to encourage them to consider conservation
options for their properties.
Information Resources
By Rose Rodriguez, Information Resources Manager
Tall Timbers’ product is information. The dedicated staff of the Information Resources division coordinates the full-range of
activities necessary to meet both the internal and external information needs of Tall Timbers. These activities include Communications (Public Relations, Print Publications, E-Newsletter and Web Site Management); Geographic Information Systems
(GIS); Information Technology (Computer Network and Database Management); the Library, which maintains the Fire Ecology Database and finally the Archives, Records Management and Historic Resources.
Communications
The first part of the year, public relations efforts were
dominated by promoting Prescribed Fire Awareness Week
in Georgia and Florida (designated the first full week of
February in Georgia and the first week of March in Florida.)
During this time, news releases were sent to the local media
about the events scheduled to highlight the importance of
prescribed fire.
Planning for Tall Timbers 50th Anniversary activities
began in the fall 2007. Tall Timbers was incorporated on
February 7, 1958. To celebrate its 50th birthday in 2008,
many special activities have been planned, beginning with a
Florida/Georgia Fire Summit in late January. The Herbert
Stoddard Natural History Seminar series was scheduled
throughout the year, and a Wade Tract Research Retrospective with a benefit concert at Tall Timbers for the Wade
Tract Endowment was planned for early March. A Fall Field
Day at Tall Timbers, a special Open House and an Alumni
event are a planned for the last part of the anniversary year.
Rose Rodriguez and Christine Ambrose, with Tall Timbers Land Conservancy, collaborated on the design of a
Tall Timbers 50th Annivesary calendar that features both
historic and recent photographs, many contributed by staff.
Rose is the lead on planning many of these activities. She has
worked with Moore Consulting Group on marketing Tall
Timbers during the year-long celebration. By the end
of the year, an anniversary
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2008 Calen
logo was designed to use for all our marketing efforts. The
marketing goal is to engage the community and increase our
membership.
GIS/IT
In June, we welcomed Brandon Gonzalez as our new Network Administrator. He has taken over the responsibilities of
network administrator, help desk administrator, and database manager. He has implemented a new help desk system
and along with Joe Noble, our GIS/Information Technology
Coordinator, finalized a disaster recovery plan.
Joe had an opportunity to offer wildfire modeling support to federal and state agencies managing the large wildfires in Florida, South Georgia, and Virginia that occured in
2007. He and Fire Ecology technician Josh Picotte presented
the results of the wildfire modeling from the fires earlier this
year at the Seven Hills Regional GIS User Group conference
in Tallahassee.
Parker-Williams Library
The new web-based library automation program, Atrium,
purchased in 2007 was installed. The new program provides
circulation, cataloging, and collection development functions
to allow for better coordination of library activities. The
new system can be accessed on the intranet and the internet.
Implementation of a self check-out system for patrons and
the elimination of cataloging backlog of books have been a
direct benefit of this new system.
The Williams Family Foundation continued their support of the Parker-Williams Library by awarding a grant to
purchase new books.
Archives & Historical Resources
In 2007, the Mellon Archives was the recipient of funds
from both the Elliott R. Donnelley Charitable Trust and the
Robert Woodruff Foundation for Phase II renovation of the
building. Phase II renovation should be completed by the
end of 2008, allowing the Archives to be reoccupied. Funds
are being sought to complete Phase III, which includes the
design, building and installation of special display cabinetry
for exhibiting artifacts securely.
Development
By Vann Middleton, Development Director
ANNUAL GIVING
Partners in Research & Conservation
YOUR GIFT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Tall Timbers thanks those very special donors whose cumulative giving in
2007 represents the very highest levels of support for our organization.
Your gift to Tall Timbers produces
tangible results. As a steward of our
wildlife and wildlands, your support
helps conserve critical wildlife habitat,
precious natural resources, and historic
rural landscapes for future generations
to share and enjoy.
Aside from annual membership
giving, there are many ways you can
make a tax-deductible gift to Tall
Timbers.
$100,000 +
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Bryan
The William Stamps Farish Fund
Mr. James E. Butler
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Phipps
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Corbett
Mr. Henry L. Crisp
Wade Plantation
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Davenport, III
$50,000 - $100,000
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Enright
Mr. D. Dwayne Hoven
Parker Poe Charitable Trust
The Perkins Charitable Foundation
Elliot R. Donnelley Family Trust
Mr. Henry Faison
Mr. Lawrence Flinn, Jr
William H. Flowers. Jr. Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner W. Garrard
Mr. James C. Gatewood
Program Specific Gifts: You can
designate a research or conservation
program as the beneficiary of your gift.
$25,000 - $50,000
Appreciated Securities: Stocks,
bonds and other appreciated securities
can be transferred from your brokerage
account directly into Tall Timbers’
account.
Firman Fund
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Kenan
The Harbert Companies
Mr. and Mrs. Rip Kirby
Mr. Mason Hawkins
Mr. Campbell B. Lanier, III
Miss Kate Ireland
R.K. Mellon Family Foundation
Claire H.B. Jonklaas Foundation
Mr. Gene W. Milner
The Thomas M. Kirbo and Irene B. Kirbo
Charitable Trust
The Charles L. Mix Memorial Fund
Magnolia Plantation
Mr. Robert Panuska
Mr. W.T. McKenzie
Mr. and Mrs. David D. Perkins
Mississippi State University
Pheasants Forever
Ms. Diane W. Parker
Pomcor, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rankin
RCM Farms
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shea
Ms. Sallie P. Sullivan
Turner Foundation
Mr. Alexander Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin Wood, III
Mr. Remy Trafelet
The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
The Joseph H. Thompson Fund
In-Kind Gifts: Tall Timbers is
always in need of equipment, furniture,
vehicles or supplies that can help
supplement our growing needs and
demands.
Planned Giving: You can help
leave a legacy of support by naming
Tall Timbers as a beneficiary in your
will, charitable trust, life insurance
policy or retirement plan. A planned
gift is an excellent way to protect the
value of your estate as you provide for
the future of Tall Timbers.
Memorial Gifts: Make a special
gift in memory of a loved one or
special friend.
Become a Corporate Sponsor: Tall
Timbers is always looking for corporate
partners to help sponsor fundraising
events, publications, educational seminars
and special projects.
Anonymous
The Archibald Foundation – Mrs. Kathy
Archibald
$10,000 - $25,000
Georgia Power Company Foundation
Mr. Gary Guzzo
Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hancock
The Orvis - Perkins Foundation
Mr. Chuck Wallace
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Webster, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. C. DuBose Ausley
Mr. Tom C. Weller
Becker Trading Company
Williams Family Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
Miss Wendy Bicknell
For more information about any of the above giving opportunities or how
you can support the research and conservation efforts of Tall Timbers,
please visit our website, www.talltimbers.org, or contact the development
office at 850/893-4153, x343. Thank you again for your generous support.
2007 Game Bird Program Donors
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Cuda
Quail Management Research (QMR)
D & D Land Company
Mr. Gus Adams
Dr. and Mrs. J. Galt Allee
Mr. R. Randall Almirall
American Investigative Services
Mr. Oakley Andrews
Mr. William H. Atwell, II
Dr. Gail S. Baker
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Baldino
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Balfour
Mr. Lamar Q. Ball
Mr. Peter C. Bance
Mr. Frank B. Barick
Barineau Properties, LTD
Mr. Stan Barnes
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Barron
Mr. Douglas Beach
Mr. Richard A. Beard, III
Mr. John P. Beasley, Sr.
Mr. Wayne Bell
Mr. Shep Bickley
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bicknell, III
Miss Wendy H. Bicknell
Mr. D. E. Billingsley
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus D. Bindhardt
Mr. James F. Bland, III
Mr. Darnall W. Boyd
Mr. Joseph S. Brannen
Mr. Ed Brasch, Jr.
Ms. Donnelle Brasseaux
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Brinson
Mr. and Mrs. Arden S. Brown
Mr. Willard W. Brown, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. P.W. Bryan, Jr.
Mr. J. R. Bryant, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Buhl
Mr. F. L. Burke
Dr. Jeff Byrd
Mr. Arthur L. Cahoon
Mr. L. Hardwick Caldwell
Mr. Clifford S. Campbell, Jr.
Mr. C. David Carley
Mr. Charles B. Chitty
Chubb Moreton Construction Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb, III
Dr. Jimmy Clanton
Judge James L. Cline, Jr.
Mr. Joey Collins
Mr. Leon H. Corbett, III
Mr. James C. Crawford
Mr. Stephen M. Creech
Miss P. Anne Cundle
Mr. Clifford Dales
Mr. John N. Daniel
Mr. J. Kimbrough Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis
Dr. J. Daniel Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Davis, Jr
Mr. and Mrs. Chip Davison
Mr. Daniel P. Davison, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Davison
Kate Ireland Model Quail & Conservation Area on Tall Timbers
Ms. Marion S. Drake
Mr. Fred Hancock
Mr. Charles A. Duggan, Jr.
Mr. William T. Hanna
Mr. Carlton Duggan
Dr. Paul A. Harcombe
Mr. William A. Dupre’
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Harmon
Mr. Robert B. Durham, Jr.
Mr. Henry J. Harper
Mr. Berryman W. Edwards, Jr.
Mr. Kenneth R. Hart
Mr. Berry W. Edwards, III
Mr. Jay C. Harvard
Mr. Edward Epp
Mr. David T. Harvey, Jr.
Mr. Henry J. Faison
Mr. J. Madden Hatcher, Jr.
Mr. Mason Hawkins
Ms. Anne F. Farish
Mr. Peter A. Hays
Mr. Edgar Faust
Mr. Don P. Hicks
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Feagin, III
Mr. Ronald P. Hogan
Mr. Steven Feder
Mr. D. K. Hollis, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Fennell
Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Howard
Mr. Monty C. Ferrell
Mr. Sherrill W. Hudson
Mr. David E. Ferro and Ms. Laura Kammerer
Miss Gannon Hunt
Firman Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Hurd
Ms. Susan M. Fitzgerald
Mr. W. Frank Hutcheson
Flint River Plantation
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Hyde
Mr. Langdon S. Flowers, Sr.
International Forest Company
Mr. Frank Foley, III
Mr. Robert L. Ireland, IV
Mr. and Mrs. C. David Fonvielle
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. T. C. Fortson, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Melville H. Ireland
Mr. E. Carlyle Franklin
Ms. Julia Ireland
Mr. D. Henry Gambrell
Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin
Mr. James C. Gatewood, Jr.
Mr. Earl E. Jackson, III
Mr. Crisp Gatewood
Mr. Robert Jenkins
Mr. Richard Gerakitis
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, Jr.
Mrs. Edward H. Gerry
Dr. T. D. Johnson
Mr. William Giudice
Mr. Chad Jones
Golden Brothers Company, Inc.
Mr. Robert C. Jones, III
Mr. Terence M. Graunke
Dr. David A. Jones
Mr. Robert W. Gray
Mr. Anthony Jonklaas
Mr. Benson T. Green
Mr. James H. Jordan
Mr. Ralph G. Greene
Mr. Ralph Jowett, Jr.
Mr. Michael B. Greene
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Joyce, Jr.
Mr. Colin D. Grimes
Mr. George F. Grimsley
Mr. Irv Kenyon
Mr. Michael A. Grimsley
Mr. Dennis G. King
Mr. Greg Hagar
Mr. Wheat Kirbo
Dr. Lynn Hagood
Mr. and Mrs. Rip Kirby
Mr. Curt O. Hall
Mr. and Mrs. W. Gates Kirkham
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hamilton
Mr. Bryan F. Knox
Mr. Jonathan Kohler
Mr. Rhodes Perdue
Mr. Del Suggs and Mrs. Denice D. Jones
Kokol & Associates
Mr. Paul D. Summers, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Komlyn
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Taggart
Mr. Claude Koontz
Mr. Everall D. Perkins
Mr. Reggie Thackston
Lake Delaware Boys’ Camp
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Perrin
Mr. Richard R. Thomas
Mrs. Mary Ann Lamont
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
Mr. Theodore F. Thomas, Jr.
Thomas H. Lanier Foundation
Mr. John E. Phipps
Mr. Brian A. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lanigan
Pomcor, Inc.
Mr. Lex Thompson
Mr. Roberts C. Lawrence
Mr. Clifford M. Preston
Mr. Bert E. Trammell, Jr.
Mr. William M. Lee
Mr. H. Samuel Prim, III
Mr. Robert M. Trulock
Mr. Ira Lee, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Palmer Proctor
Mr. R. B. Turner
Mr. Fred Leggett
Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Rankin
Mr. C. Lesesne Tyson
Dr. and Mrs. William D. Long
Mr. A. M. Redd, Jr.
Mr. Lewis C. Tyus, Jr.
Mr. John A. Loomis
Mr. Nathaniel P. Reed
Mr. Lewis Tyus, Sr.
Mr. Edward C. F. Loughlin, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Russ Reisz
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V. H. Vail
Mr. Tyler Macmillan
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley E. Rhodes
Ms. Merrill Varn
Mr. Joseph K. Mahony, II
Mr. Chuck Ribelin
Ms. Marjorie M. von Stade
Mandalay Partnership, LLC
Mr. Bradley Ribelin
Mr. Randall E. Wages
Mr. William A. Martin
Mr. Chuck Ribelin
Mr. Keith Waldrep
Mr. George T. McCutchen, Jr.
River Ridge Plantation
Dr. Timothy Walker
Mr. Charles G. McDaniel
Mr. William J. Roberts
Mr. Robert A. Walter
Mr. Mitch McElroy
Mrs. J. B. Roddenbery, Jr.
Mr. Lee Walters
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McEwen
Ms. Barbara B. Romano
Mr. Robert N. Walthall
Mr. Patrick G. McGill
Dr. John Sanders
Dr. and Mrs. James F. Walton, II
Mr. L. R. McGowan
Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sanders
Mr. T. W. Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Ted McGraw
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sash
Mr. Charlie Ward
Mr. and Mrs. William R. McGregor
Mrs. Laura Scharfenberg
Mr. James W. Warren, Jr.
Mr. Robert R. McLendon
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Scovil
Mr. Miles Watkins
Mr. Harry H. McNeel
Sedgwick Family Charitable Trust
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Watkins
Mr. Robert D. McReynolds
Mr. Frates Seeligson
Mr. William R. Watson
Mr. Guy Merison
Ms. Kerryn Seward
Dr. and Mrs. Philip C. Watt
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Middleton
Mr. John G. Shaw
Mr. and Dr. Robert C. Webster, III
Ms. Constance M. Middleton
Dr. and Mrs. George W. Simmons
Dr. and Mrs. Howard S. Weldon, Jr.
Mr. William J. Miller, Jr.
Mr. Jim Sineath
Mr. Tom C. Weller
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Mitchell, III
Dr. and Mrs. Tim Singletary
Mr. Michael J. Wetherbee
Ms. Susan Skelton
Mr. Roland Wetherbee
Mr. John H. Mobley, II
Dr. R. G. Skinner, Jr.
Mr. Wythe Whiting, III
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Mooney
Mr. Aaron G. Slator
Mr. Nick Wiley
Ms. Julie H. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Slingluff
Mr. Thomas L. Williams, IV
Mr. Nigel E. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sloan
Mr. Zack T. Williams
Mr. H. Stro Morrison, III
Dr. Terry Smith
Dr. F. P. Wirth
Mr. Brad Mueller
Mr. Arthur Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mullin
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Smith
Mr. Jay Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Murphy
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Smith
Mr. Robert D. Woodward
Dr. Richard Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Smith
Mr. Richey Wyatt
Mr. Niles Murray
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Smith
Mr. Delos H. Yancey, III
Mystic Pines Kennels
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Smith
Mr. Hamlet T. Newsom, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William P. Smith, Jr.
Alabama Quail Research Project
Mrs. Sylvia Ochs
Mr. Christian R. Sonne
Capital City Bank
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Olden, Jr.
South Georgia Outdoors, LLC
eCompanyStore
The Orvis Company
Mr. Edward C. Soutiere
Knology Broadband, Inc.
The Orvis-Perkins Foundation
Mr. William H. Sowle
Morgan Stanley
Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Park
Mr. W. R. Stephens, Jr.
Crawford Investment Counsel
Mrs. Carol Stephens
deltacom, Inc.
Mr. Jenks C. Parker
Mr. Danny Sterling
Alston & Bird, LLP.
Mr. William L. Parker
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Stoetzel
Dr. Bob Crowe
Ms. Camille L. Payne
Mr. Charles Stripling
Mr. Dan Fletcher
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr.
William H. Funk D.M.D.
Mr. Bill Roller
Mr. Fred H. Gantt
Ms. Sol C. Rose
Mr. Charles R. Klinck
Mr. Sammy Giddens
Mr. A. E. Rountree
Mr. Peter G. Gilbert
Mr. Charles Rozier
Mr. J. Reese Lanier
Mr. Henry H. Graham, Jr.
Mr. Jimmy Sands
Mr. Michael P. Lowe
Mr. Sanders Grantham
Mr. Richard S. Schwartz
Mr. William H. Scott, III
Mr. Charles Grantham
Mr. John G. Shaw
Ms. Virginia A. Swift
Mr. Paul Gray
Mr. Fain Slaughter
Mr. R. L. Youngblood
Dr. Stanley Haag
Mrs. Rebecca R. Smith
Albany Quail Project
Mr. Dan W. Hammack, Jr.
Mr. David R. Smith
Mr. Raymond J. Harbert
Mr. Michael Todd Smith
Dr. Bob Harbin
Mr. Drane Smith
Mr. David H. Hardin
Mr. Warren Stephens
Mr. Henry J. Harper
Mr. Vic Sullivan
Mr. Lister Harrell
Mr. Paul Thomas
Mr. Currun C. Humphrey
Mr. Richard R. Thomas
Mr. Charles Inglett
Mr. Matthew G. Thompson
Mr. William R. Ireland, Sr.
Mr. Remy Trafelet
Mr. M. Douglas Ivester
Mr. Billy L. Waites
Mr. John Izard
Mr. John C. Walker, III
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. James
Mr. Wesley Walker
Dr. T. D. Johnson
Mr. Chuck Wallace
Mr. Michael A. Joyner
Mr. Joseph H. Walsh, III
Dr. Forest E. Kellogg
Mr. Eugene W. Kelly
Mr. Robert Winthrop, II
Mr. Robert N. Kennedy, Jr.
Mr. John S. Wise
Mr. William W. Kidd
Mr. J. E. Witherington
Mr. William M. Lee
Game Bird Management Research
Endowment
Carolina Quail
Quail Unlimited - South Carolina Committee
Stone Barrett Foundation
Wade Plantation
Weewoka Creek Farm, Inc.
Eatman-Kyle Farm, LLC
Mulberry Plantation
Southern Field Trial Club, Inc.
IVP Timberlands, LLC
Nilo Plantation
R. K. Mellon Family Foundation
Mercer Mill Plantation
Becker Trading Company
William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
Quail Unlimited Albany Area Chapter, Inc.
Babcock Charitable Trust
Mr. Jeff Alexander
Mr. Charles T. Allen
Mr. E. Lee Barran
Mr. Jeffrey Berry
Mr. Frederic S. Bocock
Mr. J. Reid Boylston
Mrs. Kay W. Brown
Mr. J. E. Butler, Jr.
Mr. Joseph M. Byers
Mr. James R. Cannon
Mr. Edward M. Cenkush, Jr.
Mr. A. J. Clark
Mr. Sam Clinkscales, Jr.
Mr. Jay Cole
Mr. J. A. Cooper
Everett C. Crouch, D.D.S.
Mrs. Lee Dane
Mr. John P. Darnall
Mr. Waldo E. Dodge
Sam Eidt, D.V.M.
Mr. Jim Evans
Mr. M. Clark Fain, III
Mr. Lawrence Flinn, Jr.
Dr. T. Gray Fountain
Mr. J. Douglas Frantz
Mr. Robert E. Livingston, III
Mr. William E. Logan, Jr.
Mr. Jex R. Luce, Jr.
Mr. Phillip L. Martin
Mr. Dan Matheson
Ms. Ann D. Mathews
Mr. Charles L. McCallum
Mr. John McFadden
Charitable Trust
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. W. Thorpe McKenzie
Mr. Milton E. McGregor
Game Bird Program General Support
Dr. Frank S. McKnight
Mr. Lister Harrell
Mr. Robert H. Meaher
Mr. John E. Phipps
Mr. John C. Mikell, Jr.
Mr. John F. Morgan, Sr.
South Florida Quail - Escape Ranch
Project
Mr. Jack E. Morrell
Mr. Orrin Ingram
Mr. W.S. Morris
Quail Unlimited West Central FL Chapter #644
Mr. Niles Murray
Novel Release Techniques
Arthur V. Moore, D.V.M.
Mr. Bill Parrll
Robert A. Payne, M.D.
Mr. William H. Prestage
Mr. Joseph W. Propst, II
Mr. Thomas F. Purvis
Mr. Josh Raglin
Mr. Philip C. Rand
Mr. Tommy M. Rhodes
Mr. Richard C. Riemenschneider
Mr. Daniel W. Robbins
Mr. T. Jack Robinson
Mr. Frank C. Robson
Mr. Wilson M. Carter
Mr. Gene W. Milner, Jr.
Mr. Tom C. Weller
The Joseph H. and Elizabeth Lacey
Thompson Bobwhite Quail Scale of
Burn Research Project
The Joseph H. Thompson Fund
Volusia County Land Management Division
USDA, Forest Service
2007 TTLC Donors
General Project Support
The Georgia Power Foundation
Mr. Robert O. Wagner
Red Hills Defense Fund
Attendees at the 2007 Fall Field Day, held at Aberfeldy
Plantation, listen to a discussion on the effects of the
summer drought on the quail hatch.
Fall Field Day
The Wolsfelt Family – Aberfeldy Plantation
American Wildlife Enterprises
Archbold Medical Center
Bartlett Tree Experts
Blanton’s Longleaf Container Nursery
Covey Rise
DFC
Flowers Foods
GreenSouth Equipment, Inc.
International Forest Co.
Merrimack Canoe Company
Plantation Security, Inc.
South Georgia Outdoors
The Claire H.B. Jonklaas Foundation, Mr. Anthony
Jonklaas
Red Hills Spring Dinner
Allen, Mooney & Barnes
Mr. Dale Allen
Ausley & McMullen
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Balfour, III
Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Beadles
Mr. C. Victor Beadles
Mr. Earl H. Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chapin, III
Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Beverly
Mrs. Robert P. Crozer
Dr. and Mrs. Gary Bonvillian
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Davis, Jr.
Mr. Bill Bowles
Decker, Hallman, Barber & Briggs
Mr. Richard Y. Bradley
William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation
Ms. Kathleen Brady
The Frederic C. Hamilton Family Foundation
Mr. Fletcher Braswell
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. J. Travis Bryant
Capital City Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Mooney
Mrs. D. Williams Parker
Mr. Louis E. Clark, MAI
Community Foundation of South GA., Inc.
Mr. J. Mack Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Conklin
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Conlin
Mrs. Sallie P. Sullivan
The Conservation Fund
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Copps
Mrs. Kathleen Vignos Folsom
Mr. Douglas M. Croley
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil R. Williams
Mr. Robert P. Crozer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Wolsfelt
Mr. Michael Dooner
Southern Forestry Realty, Inc.
Red Hills Easement & Stewardship Fund
Spence GMC
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Champion
Farm Credit of Northwest Florida, ACA
Joan & Gill Pirrung Memorial Fund
Mr. Henry L. Crisp
Mr. Howell L. Ferguson and Dr. Sharon Maxwell
Charitable Trust
Mr. John L. Davidson
Mr. Manley K. Fuller
Mr. D. Dwayne Hoven
Georgia Power Company
Magnolia Plantation
Bobwhite Rangelands Initiative
Ms. Libbie F. Gerry
Mr. John E. Phipps
Mr. Taylor Glover
Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center, Natural
Resources Conservation Service
RCM Farms
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Goodman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shea
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Green
Planning Coordinator Position
Mrs. Wendy Grey
Mississippi State University
Foraging Ecology of Northern Bobwhites
The Orvis Company
South Carolina Quail Project
Mr. Edmund Hardy
Sedgwick Family Charitable Trust
Carolina Quail
Elizabeth and Ellery Sedgwick Fund of the
Cleveland Foundation
Upland Ecosystem Restoration Project
Mr. and Mrs. Rankin M. Smith, Jr.
NE Florida Quail Unlimited Chapter 243
Turner Foundation, Inc.
Monsanto Company
William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation
FL Department of Environmental Protection
FL Division of Forestry
Red Hills Conservation Biologist
FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Mr. and Mrs. J. Everitt Drew
Mr. Lister Harrell
Mr. Michael W. Harrell
Mr. Robert K. Henderson
Mrs. Mart P. Hill
Ms. Julia Ireland
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. Jack Katz
Mrs. Rolf Kauka
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Langford
Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawton Langford
Lanigan & Associates
2007 Tall Timbers Annual Fund
Contributors
Stoddard Society - $10,000 +
Mr. Wilson M. Carter
Cedars Partners LLC
Mr. Russell W. Chambliss
Mr. Charles E. Commander, III
Mr. Charles R. Crisp
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. Anthony Jonklaas – The Claire H. B. Jonklaas
Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Chip Davidson
Mt. Pleasant Plantation Partners – Mr. Hayne Hipp,
Mr. David S. Howey, Mr. Henry Faison
The James & Norma Edenfield Foundation
Mr. Robert Panuska
Tall Timbers Trustees, Tim Pirrung and Cornelia Corbett at
the Red Hills Spring Dinner which featured media mogul
and conservationist Ted Turner as the speaker.
Mr. John Bratton, Jr.
Benefactor - $5,000-$9,999
Mr. and Mrs. Todd M. Enright
Mr. James L. Ferman, Jr.
Mr. Frank Foley, III
Mr. David H. Gambrell
Mr. and Mrs. James Groover
Mr. Terence M. Graunke
Mr. Curt O. Hall
Mr. Mason Hawkins
Dr. and Mrs. John R. Lewis, Ph.D.
Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey
Mr. Edmund H. Hardy
Dr. D. Bruce Means
Mr. Thomas B. Hunter, IV
Mr. Kenneth R. Hart
Dr. Ronald L. Myers
Mrs. Rolf Kauka
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Hill, Jr.
The Nature Conservancy - Georgia Chapter
Mr. Harold R. Hudgens, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nunn
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lawrence, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.
Mr. Howard W. Pardue
The Orvis-Perkins Foundation
Miss Gannon Hunt
Mr. Thomas G. Pelham
Mr. W. Frank Hutcheson
Mrs. Betsy B. Schafer
Mr. and Mrs. Melville H. Ireland, Jr.
Mr. Colin S. Phipps
Mr. Delos H. Yancey, III
Mr. Robert L. Ireland, Jr.
Mr. Jeffrey S. Phipps
Patron - $2,500-$4,999
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Ireland
Mr. John E. Phipps
Ms. Connie S. Kummer
Mr. Kevin Pope and Ms. Nancy S. Isenberg
Mr. Roberts C. Lawrence
Mr. Arthur L. Cahoon
Mr. Monty Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Rhea
Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Chubb
Mr. Joseph T. Lykes, III
Mr. and Mrs. Preston T. Robertson
Magnolia Plantation
Mr. J. Mack Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher F. Davenport
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Mangum, Jr.
Mr. Jerry Scarborough
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.
Mr. Armour N. Mellon
Mr. Curt Scott
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Feagin, III
Mr. Walter E. Melton, Jr.
Mrs. Kathleen R. Scott
Mr. and Mrs. C. David Fonvielle
Mr. Guy Merison
Mr. Theodore Sedgwick
Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry, Jr.
Mr. Gene W. Milner, Jr.
Mr. Thomas B. Hunter, IV
Mrs. Alexander Moore
Mr. Jack Katz
Mr. W. S. Morris
Dr. and Mrs. J. Orson Smith .
Mrs. Rolf Kauka
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mullin
Mr. James A. Stevenson
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Kellett
Mr. George Oliva, Jr.
Mr. Michael Taggart
Mr. Alan Lamarche
Mr. Rhodes Perdue
Mr. Cliff Thaell
Mr. T. Jack Robinson
Mr. Steve Urse
Mr. Joe W. Rogers, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Scovil
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Ellery Sedgwick
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Vann, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Vereen Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade
Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha H. Wade
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Smith, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ebe Walter
Mr. and Mrs. Dudley H. Willis
Mr. and Mrs. Witt R. Stephens
Dr. and Mrs. James F. Walton, III
Sponsor - $1,000-$2,499
Mrs. Sallie P. Sullivan
Dr. and Mrs. T. K. Wetherell
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Williamson
Ausley & McMullen
Mr. and Mrs. Klaus D. Bindhardt
Mr. Summerfield K. Johnston, Jr.
University of Georgia Quail Unlimited
Mr. Tom C. Weller
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Williams
Mr. T. J. Robinson
Mr. David L. Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Witmer, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sanders
Mr. Henry L. Crisp
Ms. Rebecca C. Sanford
Mr. Douglas M. Croley
Sustaining - $500-$999
Mr. Lester Scaff
Miss P. Anne Cundle
Mr. Ellery W. Sedgwick, III
Dr. John B. Davis, Jr.
Mr. Aaron G. Slator
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Davison
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Smith
Mr. George Dawson
Dr. and Mrs. J. Orson Smith
Mr. Douglas E. Dickinson
Mr. Taylor W. Smith
Mr. C. C. Dockery
Mr. Carlton Duggan
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Staller
Mr. Timothy P. Sullivan
Mr. Huntington Eldridge
Tallahassee Nurseries
Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Elliott
Mr. Pete C. Thomas
Mr. Casey A. Fletcher
Mr. Paul Trulock
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Floyd
Ms. Marjorie M. von Stade
Miss Patricia Gainey
Dr. and Mrs. Walter R. Tschinkel
GE Foundation
Mr. Robert A. Walter
Grady Electric Membership Corp.
Mr. Lee Walters
Ms. Cynthia C. Gray
Mr. James W. Warren, Jr.
Dr. Bob Harbin
Mr. Greg Hagar
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wight, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harvard
Mr. Henry H. Graham, Jr.
Supporting - $250-$499
Mr. Jim Harvey
Mr. and Mrs. Hoke S. Grant, Jr.
Mr. H. Inman Allen
Mr. Michael A. Grimsley
Mr. R. Randall Almirall
Dr. and Mrs. Edward L. Hall
Mr. William H. Anderson, II
Mr. Joseph M. Hixon
Mr. Richard Anthony
Mr. D. K. Hollis, Jr.
Attaway Farms Plantation LLC
Mr. D. Dwayne Hoven
Mr. David Avant, III
Mr. Sherrill W. Hudson
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton J. Bailey
Mr. William L. Ireland
Mr. Lamar Q. Ball
Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin
Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Barnett, Sr.
Mr. M. Douglas Ivester
Mr. Robert E. Barnhill, Jr.
Mr. Harry T. Jones
Mr. Craig Barrow, III
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Jones
Mr. Lamar Beach
Mr. D. Raines Jordan
Mr. Earl H. Bennett
Mr. Dennis G. King
Mr. and Mrs. Ken B. Beverly
Mr. and Mrs. W. Gates Kirkham
Mr. Richard H. Bickerstaff
Mr. Bryan F. Knox
Mr. and Mrs. Sid C. Bigham, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Lawton Langford
Mr. Michael E. Blakeley
Mr. Larry Block
Dr. and Mrs. John R. Lewis, Ph.D.
Mr. Edward S. Bonnie
Mr. John B. Long, II
Dr. and Mrs. Gary Bonvillian
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Luers
Mr. William C. Boyd
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mettler
Dr. William D. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. McDermott
Col. and Mrs. Robert M. Brantly
Ms. Constance M. Middleton
Mr. David Bridges
Mr. David J. Middleton
Mr. Robert P. Brown
Mr. Willard W. Brown, Jr.
Dr. William B. Mulherin
Mr. J. Stewart Bryan
Mr. Floyd Newton
Mr. and Mrs. P.W. Bryan, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Nusbickel
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Buhl
Mr. Everall D. Perkins
Mr. Tom Callaway
Mr. David B. Poole
Mr. Percy Chubb, III
Mr. Clifford M. Preston
ConocoPhillips
The Proctor Dealerships
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Richardson, Jr.
Mr. Cader B. Cox, III
Anonymous
Mr. Leo T. Barber, Jr.
Mr. Shep Bickley
Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Beadles
Mr. C. Victor Beadles
Mr. Don B. Broadwell
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Carlton, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Chubb, III
Dr. Jimmy Clanton
Mr. Fred A. Collins
Coastal Plywood Company
Mrs. Endicott P. Davison
Mr. and Mrs. J. Everitt Drew
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Finlayson, Sr.
Mr. Lawrence Flinn, Jr.
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Franklin W. Foster
Dr. Jack B. Hobson
Mr. Frank J. Hoen, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hooker
Mr. and Mrs. Sloan Howard
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hughes, III
Mr. John Izard
Mr. Robert Jenkins
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, Jr.
Mr. Robert C. Jones, III
Mr. Jonathan Kohler
Kokol & Associates
Mr. Blake Kukar
Mr. John E. Ladson, III
Lafayette Boarding Kennels
Ms. Shelley Lakly
Mr. and Mrs. Robertson Langford
Ms. Kelly Layman
Mr. and Mrs. J. Philip Leabo, Sr.
Mr. Michael J. Lee
Mr. and Mrs. G. Mayo Livingston
Mr. Robert C. Loudermilk, Jr.
Mr. Edward C. F. Loughlin, Sr.
Mrs. Francis P. Malone
Ms. Tavia C. McCuean
Mr. Harry H. McNeel
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Middleton
Mr. Payne H. Midyette, Jr.
Mrs. Jo Moody
Mr. Brad Mueller
Dr. Richard Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newlin, Jr.
Mr. Hamlet T. Newsom, Jr.
Mr. Lance Norris
Mr. and Mrs. Tod Oliva
Dr. and Mrs. Woodward Burgert, Jr.
Mr. Don P. Hicks
Mr. James W. Parrish
Mr. F. L. Burke
Mr. Thomas J. Horne
Mr. and Mrs. Gavin Phipps
Dr. Jeff Byrd
Mr. Calvert W. Huffines
Mr. William H. Prestage
Calvin P. and Irma B. Bentley Charitable
Foundation Trust
Mrs. R. L. Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Caster
Mr. Earl E. Jackson, III
Mr. and Mrs. F. Reinstine, Jr.
Mr. and Dr. Maitland R. Remington, Jr.
Rising Covey, Inc.
Mr. Theodore Sedgwick
Mr. Frates Seeligson
Dr. and Mrs. Tim Singletary
Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Stuart C. Smith
Dr. Terry Smith
Southern Seafood
Mr. W.W.S. Sprague, Jr
Mr. John P. Stevens, Sr
Mr. R. Mac Stidham, III
Mr. Stephen A. Stutts
Suwannee Lake Plantation, Inc.
Thomas County Federal Savings & Loan
Mr. John P. Thomas
Mr. Lex Thompson
Mr. Robert M. Trulock
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Turner
Mr. John C. Updike, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Watkins
Mr. Miles Watkins
Mr. and Dr. Robert C. Webster, III
Mr. Roland Wetherbee
Mr. Hoyt H. Whelchel, Jr.
Mr. Eugene F. Williams, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. John L. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Williamson
Mr. Ben C. Willis, Jr.
Mr. James T. Willoughby
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald R. Wolsfelt
Mr. Jay Wood
Mr. Charles B. Chitty
Judge James L. Cline, Jr.
Mr. Joe Congleton
Mr. Oscar T. Cook, Jr.
Mr. Chris Cowlbeck
Mr. James C. Crawford
Mr. Stephen M. Creech
Mr. James R. Crosby, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Endicott P. Davison, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Gene L. Davidson
Mr. Asa Davis
Mr. Jed Davis
Mr. W. A. Dixon
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Doyle
Mr. Hunter Drew
Mr. Bradbury Dyer
Mr. Berry W. Edwards, III
Mr. Berryman W. Edwards, Jr.
Mr. Edward Epp
Mr. Jim Evans
Mr. Philip Faulk
Mr. Monty C. Ferrell
Flint River Plantation
Ms. Susan M. Fitzgerald
Mr. Langdon S. Flowers, Sr.
Georgia Forestry Association
Mr. T. C. Fortson, Jr.
Mr. D. Henry Gambrell
Mr. Greg Gaston
Mr. James C. Gatewood, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey P. Young
Mr. Richard Gerakitis
Contributing - $125-$249
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Goodman
Mr. William Giudice
Mr. Jeff Alexander
Dr. Ben Grace
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Allen, Jr.
Mr. Richard Gragg
Mr. William H. Atwell, II
Ms. Beth W. Grant
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Balfour, III
Mr. Benson T. Green
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Balfour
Mr. and Mrs. Lane Green
Mr. Ellis Barton
Mr. Ralph G. Greene
Mr. Douglas Beach
Mr. Colin D. Grimes
Mr. John P. Beasley, Sr.
Mr. George F. Grimsley
Mr. and Mrs. Chip Beggs
Dr. Lynn Hagood
Mr. Ben F. Betts, Jr.
Mr. Fred Hancock
Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Beverly
Mr. William T. Hanna
Mr. George H. Brannen, II
Mr. Lister Harrell
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Brinson
Mr. David T. Harvey, Jr.
Mr. Bobby Brown
Mr. Peter A. Hays
Mr. and Dr. Donald Bruhn
Mr. Tom Hess
Dr. Wes Burger
Mr. C. Bradford Jackson
Mr. Clifford W. Johnson
Dr. T. D. Johnson
Dr. David A. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Micajah B. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Powell Jones
Mr. Charles W. Kessler
Mr. Irv Kenyon
Mr. Wheat Kirbo
Mr. Terry W. Knepper
Mr. and Mrs. Marion D. Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Marion D. Lamb, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lamb, Jr.
Langdale Industries, Inc.
Mr. William M. Lee
Mr. Fred Leggett
Mr. Logan M. Lewis
Dr. and Mrs. William D. Long
Mr. Michael C. Long
Mr. Stan Lumsden
Mr. Joseph K. Mahony, II
Mr. William A. Martin
Mr. Frank L. Mason
Mr. George T. McCutchen, Jr.
Mr. Charles G. McDaniel
Mr. and Mrs. William R. McGregor
Mr. M. C. McNeill, III
Mr. Kenneth D. McInnis
Mr. Melvin Merrill
Mr. and Mrs. E. Vann Middleton
Dr. Frank Middleton
Mr. William J. Miller, Jr.
Dr. Oscar M. Mims
Mr. Ed Moody
Mr. Walt Moody
Ms. Julie H. Moore
Mr. Alexander G. Morehouse
Mr. Nigel E. Morris
Mr. and Mrs. Danny Murphy
Mr. Niles Murray
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Mustian
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Noble
Mr. and Mrs. Jarret Oeltjen
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin P. Ogburn
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Olden, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. William E. Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Park
Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Parker
Ms. Camille L. Payne
Mr. Larry L. Peterson
Pheasants Forever, Inc.
Mr. C. Duncan Beard
Ms. Lynette J. Hitt
Mr. Robby Pitts
Mr. Wayne Bell
Mr. Ronald P. Hogan
Mr. Howard E. Poitevint
Mr. D. E. Billingsley
Ms. Debra J. Hollingsworth
Mr. and Mrs. H. Palmer Proctor
Mr. Clanton Black
Mr. David G. Hortin
Mr. William C. Rawson
Mr. James F. Bland, III
Mr. J. Grant Huggins
Mr. David Rivenbark
Mr. Jay Boynton and Ms. Susan Peacock
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Hurd
Mr. William J. Roberts
Mr. Ed Brasch, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Hyde
Mr. John C. Roboski
Ms. Donnelle Brasseaux
International Forest Company
Mrs. J. B. Roddenbery, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Briedis
Mr. Bob Izlar
Mr. Charles Rozier
Mr. and Mrs. Arden S. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Jackson
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Sash
Dr. and Mrs. William R. Brueckheimer
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. James
Mrs. Laura Scharfenberg
Mr. Dana C. Bryan and Ms. Gwendolyn B. Waldorf
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Johnson
Mr. James L. Schortemeyer
Mr. Clifford S. Campbell, Jr.
Mr. Chad Jones
Mr. John G. Shaw
Mr. James R. Cannon
Mr. James H. Jordan
Mr. Jim Sineath
Mr. C. David Carley
Mr. Ralph Jowett, Jr.
Ms. Susan Skelton
Dr. J. H. Carter
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Joyce, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Sloan
Dr. and Mrs. James E. Cavanagh, Jr.
Junior Woman’s Club
Mr. Clark Smith
Dr. Barry Collins, Jr.
Mr. Hal Kantrud
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Smith
Ms. Susan G. Conard
Ms. Lelia Kirkman
Mr. Christian R. Sonne
Mr. Leon H. Corbett, III
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Komlyn
Mr. William H. Sowle
Mr. Roger Croft
Mr. Claude Koontz
Mr. Warren Stafford
D & D Land Company
Mr. Thomas M. Lawton
Mr. Danny Sterling
Mr. Clifford Dales
Mr. David H. Layne
Mr. Paul D. Summers, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Davis
Mr. Ira Lee, Jr.
Mr. Michael Taggart
J. Daniel Davis, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Charles G. Long
Mr. Theodore F. Thomas, Jr.
Mr. J. Kimbrough Davis
Mr. Charles P. Lykes, Jr.
Mr. Guy P. Thompson
Mr. Oscar S. Davis
Mr. Tyler Macmillan
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus R. Todd
Mr. Daniel P. Davison, Jr.
Dr. Stan Marshall
Mr. Bert E. Trammell, Jr.
Mr. Stephen Demott
Mrs. Katherine P. Mason
Dr. Ben M. Turner
Dr. Glenn A. Dowling
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McEwen
Ms. Virginia A. Vail
Ms. Marion S. Drake
Mr. L. R. McGowan
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Vann
Mr. Robert R. McLendon
Dr. Paul Vignos, Jr.
Mr. Robert B. Durham, Jr.
Mr. Robert D. McReynolds
Mrs. Kathleen Vignos Folsom
Mr. Victor Echaves
Mr. John C. Mikell, Jr.
Dr. Timothy Walker
Mr. Grayal E. Farr
Mr. Felix Montgomery
Mr. Edward W. Walter
Mr. Edgar Faust
Mr. H. Stro Morrison, III
Dr. and Mrs. James F. Walton, III
Mr. Steven Feder
Mrs. Sylvia Ochs
Mr. Jody Walthall and Ms. Donna Legare
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Fennell
Mr. William L. Parker
Mr. William R. Watson
Mr. David E. Ferro and Ms. Laura Kammerer
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Perrin
Mr. Richard D. Webb
Mr. Randy Floyd
Mr. Frank Wetherbee
Mr. E. Carlyle Franklin
Mr. Kevin Pope and Ms. Nancy S. Isenberg
Dr. and Mrs. Dale A. Wickstrum
Mr. Lloyd Gerry
Dr. Duncan S. Postma
Mr. John W. Wilcox, III
Mr. Angus K. Gholson, Jr.
Mr. H. Samuel Prim, III
Mr. Nick Wiley
Golden Brothers Company, Inc.
Mr. Harold J. Ragan
Mrs. Richard L. Wilhelmy
Mr. James A. Goolsby
Mr. Charlie O. Ramsey
Dr. F. P. Wirth
Mr. Greg Gorman
Mr. Philip C. Rand
Mr. Robert D. Woodward
Mr. Ronald Gottus
Mr. A. M. Redd, Jr.
Friends - $65-$124
Mr. Robert W. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. Russ Reisz
Mr. Michael B. Greene
Mr. Chuck Ribelin
Dr. and Mrs. James L. Hamrick
Mr. and Mrs. Preston T. Robertson
Mr. Matthew Haney
Ms. Rosalie Rodriguez
Dr. Paul A. Harcombe
Mr. Arnold Rogers
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Harmon
Mr. A. E. Rountree
Mr. Jay C. Harvard
Mr. Bobby Ryan
Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hiers
Mr. and Mrs. William Ryder
Mr. Clifford R. Hinkle
Dr. John Sanders
The Honorable and Mrs. Robert Hinkle
Benton S. Satterfield, M.D.
Mr. Mark Abdoney
Mr. Gus Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ashler, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Baldino
Dr. Gail S. Baker
Mr. Peter C. Bance
Mr. Stan Barnes
Barineau Properties, LTD
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Barrett
Mr. Howell Ferguson and Dr. Sharon Maxwell
Ferguson
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Frazee, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge T. Gerry
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Humphrey, II
Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. and Mrs. Melville H. Ireland, Jr.
Mrs. Rolf Kauka
Mr. and Mrs. George R. Langford
North Florida Animal Hospital
Ms. Diane Williams Parker
Mr. Leigh H. Perkins, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Colin S. Phipps
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Stahl, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas V.H. Vail
Painting of Miss Kate Ireland on her shooting wagon with her beloved labs.The 2007 Annual Report Honored Miss Kate
Ireland for her years of service to Tall Timbers. Original painting is an by Sandy Proctor.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sellars
Mr. Billy L. Waites
Ms. Kerryn Seward
Mr. Cliff Waldrep
Mr. Terry L. Sharpe
Mr. Wayne Waldrep
Mr. John K. Sisk
Mr. Robert N. Walthall
Dr. R. G. Skinner, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Watkins
Mrs. Marsha Slade
Mr. Charles Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Slingluff
Weewoka Creek Farm, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Smith
Mr. Bill Weldon
Mr. Arthur Smith
Dr. and Mrs. Howard S. Weldon, Jr.
Mr. Drane Smith
Mrs. Julia M. Smithson
Mr. Michael R. Wetzel
Mr. John B. Snowden
Mr. Bob Williams
Mr. John Sojat
Mr. Zack T. Williams
Southern Seed Company, Inc.
Mr. John S. Wise
Mr. Edward C. Soutiere
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wise
Mr. Rocky Spence
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Wofford
Mr. Eric Staller
Mr. Edward V. Woodward
Mr. Charles Stripling
Mr. Richey Wyatt
Mr. Del Suggs and Mrs. Denice D. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Youngstrom
Mr. Reggie Thackston
Kate Ireland Golf Tournament
& Auction
Hole Sponsors
Alexander and Vann
C. W. Roberts Contracting, Inc.
Capital City Bank
Cedar Creek Land & Timber, Inc.
Chubb Associates LTD/Realtors
F & W Forestry Services, Inc.
Farmers & Merchants Bank
GreenSouth Equipment
Holland & Knight
J. Smith Lanier & Co., Inc.
Murphy Investment Management Co.
Ochlocknee-Rose Plantation, LLC
Olson Insurance and Financial Services
2007 Naturalists’ Ball
Plantation Services, Inc.
Mr. Daniel H. Thompson
Underwriters
Sterne Agee
Mr. Jesse Thompson
Anonymous
Mr. C. Lesesne Tyson
Sallie and Duby Ausley
Mr. Lewis Tyus, Sr.
Mr. Lewis C. Tyus, Jr.
Margo & Klaus Bindhardt
University of California Library
Sugar Blount
Mr. Andrew J. Vann
Capital City Bank Group
Team Sponsors
Ms. Merrill Varn
Mr. Heeth Varnedoe
Archbold Medical Center
Mr. Vic Venters
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cousins
Mr. and Mrs. C. Dubose Ausley
Mr. Randall E. Wages
Mr. Rick Bateman
Mr. Jim A. Thomas
Mr. Brian A. Thompson
Southern Forestry Consultants, Inc.
Synovus Trust Company
T. R. Miller Mill Company, Inc.
Talcor Commercial Real Estate
Wakeford & Riles Insurance Agency
Whitley Contracting
David Lanier
Ms. Landon Lanier
The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
Mr. Walter Matia
Mr. David J. Middleton
Monticello Nurseries, LLC
My Favorite Things
The Orvis Company, Inc.
Pebble Hill Plantation
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stanley Proctor
Red Olive Catering
Mr. Ben Reichenau
Mr. C. Ford Riley
Signature Gallery
Skate World
Stellers Gallery
Southern Seafood
Southwood Golf Club
2007 Kate Ireland Golf Tournament winners (l-r), Mark Kent, Frank Whitley, Clark Smith and Rip Kirby with Tall Timbers
Executive Director, Lane Green.
Super-Lube, Inc.
Tallahassee Museum of History & Natural Science
Thomasville YMCA
C. W. Roberts Contracting, Inc.
Mr. Dan Ausley
Mr. R. B. Turner
Commercial Bank of Thomasville
Betsy Barfield Photography
Mr. Stafan Ughetto
Earl Bacon Agency, Inc.
The Big Oak Tree Rug Gallery
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Frazee, Jr.
Mr. Hurley Booth
Dr. Robin Wise
Miss Kate Ireland
Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee
Women’s World
Lanigan & Associates
Chelsea Salon/Spa
Mr. John Lansing
Mr. Bill Connally
Mellon Archives Building
Mr. Patrick G. McGill – Citigroup Atlanta
Mr. John N. Daniel
The Elliot R. Donnelley Charitable Trust
Merrill Lynch Palm Beach
The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation
Ms. Diane Williams Parker
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Demont
Fallin’s Barbeque
The Jim Walter Lodge
Mr. Raymond E. Pinson
Ms. Gina Gamble
Red Hills Capital
Mrs. Ali Gentry Flota
Rehab Technologies, Inc.
Fun Station, Inc.
Southern Forestry Realty, Inc.
GTO, Inc.
Tallahassee Orthopedic Clinic
The Gift Shop
William H. Flowers Building
Thomas County Federal
Aaron Gober
Thomasville National Bank
Gold’s Gym
Great Adventure Outfitters
Friends of the Library
Dinner Sponsor
Mr. Greg Hagar
Mr. John E. Phipps
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic C. Hamilton, Sr.
Williams Family Foundation of Georgia
Mr. and Mrs. Bob L. Horner
Publications Support
Southeastern Asset Management, Inc.
Bar Sponsor
North Florida Animal Hospital
Flowers & Centerpieces
Ms. Natasha Hutton
Miss Kate Ireland
Mr. A. W. Jones, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Kelly
Mr. Ram Singletary, Singletary’s Flowers
Mr. Bryan F. Knox
Auction Contributors/Donations
Mr. Jonathan Kohler
Mr. and Mrs. Rich Arroll
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lamb, Jr.
Mr. Bill Atchinson
Mr. Alan Lamarche
Anonymous
Mr. Buster Brown
Walter Foundation – Mr. Robert Walter
Ebe & Henrietta Walter
Southern Forestry Realty
Ecological Forestry Program Support
The Archibald Foundation
Mr. Robert R. Williams
Fire Ecology Program Support
Anonymous
Mr. Angus Gholson
Mr. John E. Phipps
Mr. Tim Walker
Ms. Rosalie Rodriguez
GIS Program Support
Ms. Patricia A. Sanzone
Mr. John E. Phipps
Jones Tenant House Project
Cherokee Foundation
Ms. Suzanne Speed
Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Wood, III
Mr. Edward W. Woodruff
Land Management Program Support
BASF
Vertebrate Ecology Program Support
In Memory
1
Tall Timbers lost three friends
and long-time supporters in 2007.
We remember them here.
Mr. Kenneth B. Adams
Mr. William F. Bissett
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chapin
Mrs. Susan M. Fitzgerald
FSU Faculty & Friends
Halifax River Audubon
Ms. Donna L. Legare
Mr. Andrew J. Smith
Mr. Kent L. Wilmer
Wade Tract Research Program
Support
The Archibald Foundation
Birdquest
Mrs. Carol J. Armstrong
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Bicknell
Ms. Amelia Fusaro
Mr. and Mrs. Lane Green
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Holmes
Miss Kate Ireland
GFWC Tallahassee Junior Woman’s Club
Mrs. Carolyn Kindell
Langdon S. Flowers, Sr.
1922 – 2007
Mr. Langdon S. Flowers, Sr. former CEO of the
baking company that bears his family’s name
was a passionate and longtime supporter of Tall
Timbers since the early 1970s. A consummate
quail hunter, Mr. Flowers could always be found
on the front row at our annual Fall Field Days
with his good friend and co-owner of Trinity
Place, Mr. Harry T. Jones, Jr. Mr. Flowers
generously supported multiple programs and
projects at Tall Timbers throughout the years,
but his interest and enthusiasm in learning the
latest research discoveries from the Game Bird
Program was without equal.
Tall Timbers Staff, (l-r)Josh McCormick, Chris Borg and Jim Cox count birds for Bird Quest 2007.
In Memory
A proud and happy moment for Martha Gerry: Forego wins the
1976 Marlboro Cup with Shoemaker up.
Martha Farish Gerry
1918-2007
Martha Farish Gerry was an avid sports enthusiast, volunteer
and philanthropist. Her involvement and leadership
contributed to improved health care and social services in
New York City, Long Island, NY and Monticello, FL. As
a Thoroughbred owner for more than 65 years, her most
renowned racehorse was Forego, with Horse of the Year honors
from 1974 to 1976. Martha Gerry will forever be remembered
as a passionate conservationist and true sportswoman. Her
longtime support of the research and conservation programs
at Tall Timbers will not be forgotten. Together with her
husband, she was one of the first champions of support for
long term quail research studies here in the Red Hills. Tall
Timbers is also proud to hold a conservation easement on
their beautiful Pinckney Hill Plantation in Jefferson County,
Florida – a place held near and dear to her heart.
Robert P. Crozer
1947 – 2007
Former Flowers Industries Vice-Chairman
and owner of Mayhaw Plantation, Bob Crozer
was a longtime supporter of Tall Timbers. Mr.
Crozer was a tireless advocate for conservation
in the Red Hills Region and placed a portion
of his beloved Mayhaw Plantation under
conservation easement with Tall Timbers,
conserving in perpetuity the precious natural
resources for future generations to enjoy.
He was also an active supporter of the land
use planning work of Tall Timbers, helping
endorse Canopy Road designation in Thomas
County on New Hope, Glasgow and 12 Mile
Post Roads and successfully worked to block
the construction of new cell towers to help
preserve the land and sky’s natural beauty.
Mr. Crozer was a true sportsman and a model
steward of the wildlife and wildlands of the
Red Hills Region.
Statement of Financial Position
TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH, INC.
TOTAL ALL FUNDS
total all funds
assets
12/31/2007
12/31/2006
Current Assets
Cash & Cash Equivalents
Accounts Receivable
Grants/Projects Receivable
Pledges Receivable (Net)
Due from Tall Timbers Foundation, Inc. (Net)
Prepaid Expenses
$1,447,536
190,468
134,373
53,850
15,426
49,594
$1,087,613
42,841
149,690
104,902
0
47,173
Total Current Assets
$1,891,247
$1,432,219
Total Other Assets
TOTAL ALL ASSETS
5,146,407
1,526
8,480
25,409
35,415
$7,073,069
5,194,685
0
8,480
25,409
33,889
$6,660,793
72,900
0
59,668
0
72,264
791
60,389
5,951
19,912
152,480
16,000
155,395
5,153,097
1,393,368
374,124
6,920,589
$7,073,069
5,043,953
1,087,321
374,124
6,505,398
$6,660,793
Property & Equipment
At Cost less Accumulated Depreciation
Other Assets
Scientific Collection
Museum Collection
liabilities & net assets
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable
Due to Tall Timbers Foundation, Inc. (net)
Accrued Liabilities
Notes Payable
Deferred Revenue
Total Liabilities
net assets
Unrestricted
Temporarily Restricted
Permanently Restricted
Total Net Assets
TOTAL LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
Allocation of Funds
Fundraising
$108,048
Management & General 3%
$250,540
7%
Depreciation
$253,456
7%
Lobbying
$144,932
4%
Sources of Revenue
Other Revenues
$691,825
16%
Program - Grants & Projects
$1,705,016
46%
Program General Operating
$1,191,233
33%
Grants & Projects
$649,664
15%
Tall Timbers Foundation
$838,863
20%
Beadel Trust
$261,325
6%
Contributions & Membership
$1,834,439
43%
2007 Staff & Associates
Administration
Lane Green, Executive Director
Vicki Sellars, Controller
Faye Salis, P/T Clerical Assistant
Dana Strickland, Administrative Assistant
Development
Vann Middleton, Development Director
Lorene Garcia, Development Assistant
Information Resources
Rose Rodriguez, Information Resources Manager
Carol Armstrong, Librarian
Brandon Gonzalez, Netwark Administrator (beginning May 2007)
Kathy Marois, P/T Computer Specialist/Database Manager (until May 2007)
Joe Noble, GIS/Information Technology Coordinator
Faye Salis, P/T Library Assistant*
Juanita Whiddon, P/T Archives, Records Management & Historical Resources
Research & Land Management
Ronald E. Masters, PhD, Director of Research
Lauren Aplin, Intern, Game Bird Research, Escape Ranch*
Starr Askew, Administrative Assistant
Cynthia Balboni, Intern, Vertebrate Ecology Research
Lisa Baggett, Administrative Assistant
Elyse Barksdale, Intern, Fire Ecology Research
Adam Butler, MS Candidatae, University of Georgia
Jimmy Capps, Technician, Game Bird Research*
Randy Cass, MS Candidate, University of Georgia*
Joseph Cheshier, Intern, Game Bird Research
Tracy Cikanek, Technician, Game Bird Research
Jim Cox, Biologist, Vertebrate Ecology*
Henry Curry, Intern, Game Bird Research
Jason Diaferio, Intern, Game Bird Research, Escape Ranch*
David Duncan, Technician, Game Bird Research
Susan Ellis-Felenge, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia*
Brant Faircloth, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia*
Christopher Felenge, Intern, Game Bird Research
Kaye Gainey, Senior Administrative Assistant
Alana Gaskell, Technician, Game Bird Research
Jerome Golden, Forest Operations Manager
Ann George, Intern, Fire Ecology Research
Jennifer Good, Technician, Game Bird Research
Sarah E. Haas, PhD Candidate, Vertebrate Ecology, University of Florida
Greg Hagan, Coordinator, Upland Ecosystem Restoration Project*
Joshua Harn, Technician, Game Bird Research
Robert Hoffman, Technician, Game Bird Research
Rob Holfretter, MS Candidate, Research Admin., Auburn University
Jason Isbell, Technician, Fire Ecology Research
Curtis Johnson, Facilities Manager
Jeremy Johnson, Technician
Clark Jones, MS Candidate, Vertebrate Ecology, University of Georgia*
Ricky Lacky, Technician, Game Bird Research
Benjamin Louwsma, Land Mgmt Aide
Claudia Listopad, PhD Candidate, Research Admin., University of Central Florida
Lora Loke, MS Candidate, Vertebrate Ecology
David Martin, Technician, Game Bird Research, South Florida Project
James Martin, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia*
Mark McConnell, Technician, Game Bird Research
Joshua McCormick, Woodpecker Conservation Specialist
Stephen McDowell, Intern, Game Bird Research, South FL Project*
Matthew McKinney, Technician, Game Bird Research, South FL Project*
Ryan Miller, Intern, Game Bird Research
Henry Mimms, Technician
Matthew Moehle, Intern, Game Bird Research
Elmer Mowbray, Technician
Molly Neely-Burnam, Administrative Assistant
William E. Palmer, PhD, Robert C. Balfour, Jr.,
Game Bird Management Research Fellow
William H. Palmer, Land Management Aide
Eric Patrick, Land Management Aide
Joshua Picotte, Technician, Fire Ecology Research
Emily Pipher, Intern, Vertebrate Ecology Research
Michelle Prasik, Technician, Game Bird Research, South FL Project*
Tony Roberts, Technician, Game Bird Research*
Kevin M. Robertson, PhD, Research Scientist, Fire Ecology
Kim Sash, Research Technician
Justin Smith, Intern, Game Bird Research, Escape Ranch*
Eric Staller, Natural Resources Coordinator
Audrey Sweet, Technician, Game Bird Research
Theron M. Terhune, MS Candidate, University of Georgia*
Emily Toriani, Technician, Vertebrate Ecology
Shane D. Wellendorf, MS, Biologist, Game Bird Research
Carrie Westcott, Intern, Fire Ecology Research
Brent Widener, Pebble Hill On-site Project Leader*
Brittany Winchester, Intern, Game Bird Research
Tall Timbers Land conservancy
Kevin McGorty, Director
Christine E. Ambrose, PhD, Conservation Coordinator
Elizabeth Barron, Planning Assistant
Chris Borg, Conservation Biologist*
Lynne Boyd, Land Conservation Specialist*
Neil Fleckenstein, Planning Coordinator
Ofelia Sivyer, Administrative Assistant
Katherine Smith, Intern
Partners
Forest Service
Bruce Davenport, Fire Ecologist, Southern Region
National Park Service
Caroline Noble, Regional Fire Ecologist
The Nature Conservancy’s Global Fire Initiative
Ronald L. Myers, Ph.D., Fire Ecologist for Latin American & Caribbean
Marie C. Aguirre, Bilingual Project Assistant
Heather Montanye, Operations Manager
Paula Seamon, Director of Fire Management & Training
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Fire Management Field Office
David Brownlie, Regional Fire Ecologist
Evette Smith, Administrative Assistant
Research Associates
L.Wes Burger, PhD, Deptartment of Wildlife and Fisheries, Mississippi State University
John Carroll, PhD, Warnell School of Forestry, University of Georgia
Robert Cooper, PhD, Warnell School of Forestry, University of Georgia
Jeff Glitzenstein, PhD, Fire Ecology
Rebecca Kimball, PhD, Department of Zoology, University of Florida
David Ligon, PhD, University of New Mexico
Sandra Ligon, PhD, University of New Mexico
W. J. Platt, PhD, Louisiana State University - Longleaf pine and beech magnolia forest dynamics
Donna Streng, PhD, Fire Ecology
Beadel Fellows
Angus K. Gholson, Jr.
Jeff Glitzenstein, PhD
David Ligon, PhD
Gil Nelson, PhD
Donna Streng, PhD
*Grant funded position
P/T = part-time
Partners
Forest Service
By Bruce Davenport, USFS Fire Ecologist, Southern Region
The Forest Service Southern Region applied
prescribed fire to over 950,000 acres of
National Forest lands in 2007, continuing its
commitment to both hazardous fuels reduction and ecosystem restoration and sustenance. As part of this effort, monitoring protocols are in place to track the accomplishment of
burning objectives and long-term fire effects. 2007 was also
a busy year for fire suppression, although, thankfully, without the widespread hurricane impacts of recent years. My
efforts, among others at Tall Timbers, were intermittently
focused on firefighting, beginning in May and continuing
into late summer.
Again, often in collaboration with others at Tall
Timbers, the presentation of training courses constituted
an important element of this year’s work. Those sessions included Prescribed Burn Boss, Introduction to Fire
Effects, Advanced Fire Behavior, and Smoke Management
for Prescribed fire. Other projects were the creation of a
national guidebook for resource recovery efforts following
Ozark National Forest 2007
catastrophic events, the development of new inventory and
monitoring systems for National Forests in the eastern U.S.,
assisting with wilderness fire management plans, and initiating an update of “A Guide for Prescribed Fire in Southern
Forests”. Perhaps most excitingly, I have become involved
with a range-wide restoration initiative for Longleaf Pine,
specifically in addressing the barriers to the increased levels
of prescribed burning which significant acreages of restored
Longleaf will entail.
National Park Service
By Caroline Noble, NPS Southeast Region Fire Ecologist
The National Park Service Southeast (NPS)
Fire Ecology Program remained busy for
another year. In 2007, thirty NPS units in the
southeast region completed over 142,000 acres of landscape
fire treatments. The fire ecology program is responsible for
evaluating the success of these activities in meeting ecological objectives. Three regional fire effects teams implement
and manage a regional fire effects monitoring program
of nearly 500 plots in 18 parks. The data from these plots
provide feedback on whether both short and long term goals
and objectives for various projects are being achieved.
In addition to our internal fire ecology and monitoring program, we are increasingly utilizing outside partnerships with universities and private contractors to support
our efforts. At the current time we have partnerships with
Auburn, Clemson, University of Tennessee, and Florida
International University, and Stephen F. Austin University
in Texas. Our research includes fire effects on sensitive and
endangered species, using fire to control exotic species,
determining historic fire regimes, and evaluating seedbeds to
examine historic vegetation composition.
NPS fire managers conduct a prescribed fire in the wildland urban interface at Gulf Islands
National Seashore in Pensacola Beach. The vegetation in this area has been heavily
impacted by tropical storms in recent years.
Locating the regional fire ecologist position at Tall
Timbers continues to be highly valuable in fostering such
partnerships with others in the field of fire ecology. Further
information about the NPS fire management and fire effects
monitoring programs can be found at the following website:
http://www.nps.gov/fire/fire/fir_ecology.cfm
Partners
The Nature Conservancy’s Fire Initiative
© McRee Anderson
By TNC Staff
The Nature Conservancy works to maintain fire’s role where
it benefits people and nature, and keep fire out of places
where it’s destructive. Working with partners, we use and
promote Integrated Fire Management as a way to reconcile
the fire-related needs of people and nature. We also conduct
scientific assessments to understand the causes and consequences of altered fire behavior, develop site-based solutions
to maintain and restore habitats that require fire to exist and
advance laws and policies that conserve fire’s natural role.
One way TNC builds partner capacity is by sponsoring collaborative, multi-stakeholder learning networks.
Fire Learning Networks take a long-term approach to
restoring the natural role of fire through a collaborative
process that ensures the needs of different stakeholders are
met. All stakeholders—from community groups to federal
agencies—come together to develop a shared vision for a
given landscape, and to learn how to overcome critical challenges related to maintaining or restoring ecosystem health.
Network projects demonstrate successful approaches, speed
technology transfer and generate on-the-ground results.
In the United States, TNC performs prescribed burns on
approximately 100,000 acres per year. In conjunction with
Restored blackland prairie with pale purple coneflower blooming in the spring.
partners, staff also support the planning and implementation
of burns on another several hundred thousand acres per year.
The Conservancy is also rapidly developing ecological fire
management capacity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our fire training programs trained more than 450 people
from five countries in ecological fire management in 2007,
including representatives from land management agencies
and governments, NGO’s and local communities.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
By David Brownlie, Regional Ecologist, FWS
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
Regional Fire Management Field Office at Tall Timbers
stayed busy through 2007. Evette Smith our Office Assistant, and Regional Fire Ecologist and Acting Project Leader
David Brownlie continued serving their southeastern
National Wildlife Refuges and Ecological Services stations
and FWS partners from Tallahassee. Jim Durrwachter
reported for duty in April 2007 as the new Director for the
Inter-agency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC)
after Phil Weston moved to the Regional Fire Planner position from NIPFTC Director. Dr. Sue (Grace) Wilder continued serving FWS stations and partners west of Tallahassee
from her base in southeastern Louisiana.
During 2007, every member of the Field Office and Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership played a fire suppression support
role during the Sweat Farm Road/Big Turnaround Complex,
the largest wildfire to hit Georgia and Florida in recent history.
That support continues in the form of burned area rehabilitation and restoration, post-burn severity assessment, post-burn
research needs workshops and grant proposal writing.
Field Office staff continued to provide Student
Conservation Association
interns to conduct fire effects
monitoring on refuges across
the FWS Southeast Region,
during 2007. We were also
heavily involved at national, Jim Durrwachter, Director for the National
Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center
regional and state levels in
air quality/smoke rule-making and policy revisions through
the Fire-Air Coordination Team, the National Coalition of
Prescribed Fire Councils and local fire councils. The Southeast Region of FWS once again exceeded our assigned fuel
treatment targets during FY 2007. Work also concluded on
an Inter-agency Joint Fire Science funded grant, “Development and demonstration of smoke plume, fire emissions, and
pre- and post-prescribed fire fuel models on North Carolina
Coastal Plain forest ecosystems.” We look forward to continuing the longstanding relationship between the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Tall Timbers, and our Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership colleagues through 2008 and beyond.
Partners
Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership
By Dr. Kevin Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy, 2008 Chairperson
SEFEP Accomplishments 2007
The Southeastern Fire Ecology Partnership (SEFEP) is represented by members of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
U.S. Forest Service, National Parks Service, The Nature
Conservancy, and Tall Timbers Research Station & Land
Conservancy, all based at Tall Timbers. In 2007 SEFEP
continued to pursue its charter of promoting fire ecology
training, education, and research in the southeastern U.S.
SEFEP participated in training for the Prescribed Fire Burn
Boss, Smoke Management for Prescribed Fire, Introduction
to Fire Effects, and Red Card training courses in association
with the Prescribed Fire Training Center in Tallahassee.
Osceola National Forest and Okefenokee National Wildlife
Refuge (NWR), in part to take advantage of the historic
2006 wildfires. SEFEP has arranged for Okefenokee NWR
to contribute staff time and other resources to the project expansion. The research has been successful so far in
developing this valuable tool for monitoring wildfire and
prescribed fire acreage and assessing fire effects in southern
upland pine forests, flatwoods, and swamps.
SEFEP has also spearheaded efforts to establish a southeastern chapter of the Association for Fire Ecology. Plans are
in place for an inaugural meeting in conjunction with the
24th Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference in Tallahassee in
January 2009, for which SEFEP has helped garner support.
In 2007 SEFEP completed its first year of administering a Joint Fire Sciences Program grant through Tall
Timbers to improve methods of estimating burn severity
in southeastern ecosystems using satellite data. Research
was expanded from the Apalachicola National Forest to the
Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy
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Tallahassee, FL 32312
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