Impressively dominant in forested swamplands and floodplains throughout the southeastern United States, loblolly pine, are fast growing conifers. They can easily get to 100 feet tall, or taller, with a growth rate of up to 2 feet annually, and up to 4.5 feet around in diameter. It’s a nesting tree for raptors like bald eagles and ospreys and used heavily for lumber in the Southeast, mostly for pulp wood to make paper products. The needles of the loblolly grow in bundles of three, they’re long an