Pine & Marsh

Apalachicola Bay is harvesting wild oysters again, but only on three reefs and only through February 28, 2027. This field report walks the estuary, the longleaf and wiregrass interior, the barrier islands, and Blackwater paddle country, with season-by-season planning for the Forgotten Coast.

Conecuh National Forest covers 84,224 acres of pine, bog, and floodplain on Alabama's Florida line, and fire decides what kind of turkey country it is in any given year. This deep dive separates what the research actually measured from what gets repeated, and explains how burn timing, rotation, wild pigs, and the 2026-27 county split shape turkeys in south Alabama.

From the Kissimmee chain through Lake Okeechobee to the mangrove edge of Florida Bay, South Florida's water runs one long gradient. This field report walks the ecology, the bass spawn, the snook and tarpon calendar, the duck marshes, and the water-management projects that decide how all of it fishes.