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Robert Cowart wipes sweat away after felling a pine on White Oak Plantation. Pine forests are common in the southeastern Coastal Plain and Florida. Many forests are managed for timber production as pulp used for paper products can come from a wide variety of tree species including conifers.
The vast majority of Florida’s over 17 million acres of forested land are comprised of pines or a combination of pines and hardwoods. Pine flatwoods are typically found on poorly drained, sandy soils intermediate in moisture content between wetter bottomlands and drier uplands. Overstory of these woodlands consists mainly of longleaf, slash, and loblolly pines, although pond pine and shortleaf pine do occur. The shrub layer of flatwoods forests often includes blackberry, dwarf huckleberry, fetterbush, gallberry, saw palmetto, and wax myrtle.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
- Image Size
- 10198x6856 / 65.6MB
- Keywords
- Contained in galleries
- Okefenokee USA_National Geographic magazine_4/1992

