Yes Stan I have helped support Tall Timbers for many years even though I've never seen a longleaf pine. It was the Komarek brothers there with TT who published their famous paper that plotted lightning strike frequencies across North America and found a near perfect match with grasslands including those originally under several important southern and western coniferous forest types. They happened to be friends of a wildlife refuge manager I knew and he was the one that fostered my interest in fire ecology. I try to burn as much of my grassland as possible and helped on many other burns on public and private land.