Partners for Fish and Wildlife partner John Littles on nonprofit land in coastal Georgia

John Littles, a native Georgian, is executive director of nonprofit McIntosh SEED. The organization’s mission is “to create and sustain healthy and diverse rural communities through community and economic development, community organizing, conservation, and direct services across the Southeast.” McIntosh is a coastal Georgia county, and SEED stands for Sustainable Environment and Economic Development. In 2015, with help from the Conservation Fund, McIntosh SEED purchased 1,148 acres of land in neighboring Long County as a community forest. Littles and McIntosh SEED are reintroducing longleaf onto the land. The USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program has provided funding to help plant longleaf pine seedlings.
[Note: That is not longleaf pine behind Littles; that likely is slash pine.]