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FDR State park headquarters and the FDR Pine
Mountain grill
FDR's Forestry Legacy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved Pine Mountain and the above view of a Georgia mixed pine-oak-hickory forest. FDR built this grill on his favorite vista where he had numerous meals. He also inspired a Depression-era building campaign of the rustic style on government forests to support an ailing U.S. work force. Roosevelt reviewed the construction of the above Pine Mountain State Park headquarters which was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
There also is a significant population of "mountain" longleaf on Pine Mountain. Although outside the typical coastal plain range of longleaf, Pinus palustris does well in parts of the lower Appalachian. Roosevelt actually planted a demonstration forest of 5,000 longleaf on his Georgia farm during the winter season of 1929-30.
Little White House "mountain" longleaf
and FDR's unfinished portrait
