Environmental Description:  This saturated longleaf pine - pond pine woodland community occurs in wet mineral soils in zones between drier, sandhills longleaf pine communities and saturated streamside forests dominated by Nyssa biflora. Stands of this woodland are found in saturated soil situations, however, the soils do not seem as wet as areas with ~Ilex coriacea - Lyonia lucida - Smilax laurifolia Wet Shrubland (CEGL004666)$$ or ~Pinus serotina / Lyonia lucida - Ilex glabra - (Cyrilla racemiflora) Wet Shrubland (CEGL003846)$$. In dry years, this difference in soil moisture is even more pronounced and evident. Furthermore, on Fort Benning, these woodlands (CEGL003860) are most commonly found in narrow bands in ecotonal zones on flat areas or at low slopes along small intermittent streams. The habitats are bounded by either a saturated forest type, saturated switch cane shrubland or saturated evergreen shrubland near stream drains; longleaf woodlands occur upslope from these habitats. Given these conditions, fires would ideally occur frequently (perhaps every other year) in these habitats and would maintain the more open shrub stratum that allows for a diverse herbaceous component. CEGL004666 is most often found along drains of narrow streams in highly dissected topographic situations and is therefore in wetter situations than either CEGL003846 or CEGL003860. CEGL004666 would have a less frequent fire-return interval due to higher levels of soil moisture than either CEGL003846 or CEGL003860. Burns in CEGL004666 would require a very dry year to allow fire to burn more than just the edges of this habitat type. CEGL003846 is in open, flat situations with saturated soils, but does not have the diverse herbaceous component seen in CEGL003860 due to a dense broad-leaved evergreen shrub component which would indicate a less frequent fire-return interval than CEGL003860. Furthermore, CEGL003846 does not have an open, continuous tree canopy; rather, canopy trees are sparse, scattered and often appear to have a stunted growth form (M. Mulligan pers. comm.).