FOREST RESOURCES OF NORTHEASTERN FLORIDA 



Summary of Findin 



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cent in stands classified as under sawlog size, and 

 8 percent as reproduction (table 4). 



Almost 1 5 percent of the forest area is clear cut 

 and thus far has failed to restock (table 4). 



Naval Stores 



The 174 active turpentine stills in 1934 made up 

 15 percent of the total number in the South. 



Production during 1933-34 amounted to 81,610 

 naval stores units, or about 17 percent of the gum 

 naval stores production of the entire country. 



The gross area classified as the field for continuing 

 turpentine production is roughly 5 million acres. 

 Over 63 percent of the turpentine area is in flat- 

 woods, 21 percent in the rolling uplands, and 16 

 percent in swamps, bays, branch heads, ponds, 

 and river bottoms (table 6). 



More than 37 percent of the turpentine area 

 during the 1934-35 season was in round timber, 

 nearly 27 percent was being worked, and 36 percent 

 worked out or resting (table 6). 



Of about 22 million cups worked during the 

 1934-35 season, more than 60 percent were on 

 front faces (table 8). 



Nearly 12 million tons of well-seasoned stumps 

 suitable for the production of wood naval stores 

 could be removed by blasting (table 10), with an 

 additional 4 million tons available in the future. 



Wood Products 



About 58 percent of the 11 billion board feet 

 (International %-inch rule) volume in 1934 was 

 pine, 24 percent hardwood, and the remainder 

 cypress (table 11). 



More than 85 percent of the saw- timber volume 

 (Doyle rule) of hardwoods and cypress is still in 



'N VIEW of the multiplicity of data presented 

 in the following pages, it will be helpful to 

 indicate briefly at this point some of the more 

 significant of the survey findings, with references 

 to the tables presented later in which more detailed 

 figures are given. 



Area and General Conditions 



The gross area surveyed in northeastern Florida 

 is 9,515,600 acres, as shown in table 1 and the type 

 map (last page). The principal land uses are: 



Acres 



Forest 7,378,900 (77.5 percent). 



Agricultural 1,442,800 (15.2 percent). 



Other areas 693,900 (7.3 percent). 



In August 1934 a large number of tracts totaling 

 more than 4 million acres, or almost 42 percent of 

 the survey unit, were tax delinquent. 



The Forest 



Almost 4 million acres, or over 50 percent of the 

 forest area, are in flatwoods; the remainder is about 

 evenly divided between rolling uplands and 

 swamps, bays, river bottoms, and the like (table 2). 



Turpentine pine types are present on almost 70 

 percent of the forest area. They dominate nearly 

 90 percent of the flatwoods, 60 percent of the 

 rolling uplands, and 35 percent of the swamps, 

 bays, and river bottoms (table 2). 



More than 1 ) ' 2 million acres of the forest area is 

 classified as old growth (table 4). Of this area 63 

 percent is in swamps, bays, river bottoms, etc., 26 

 percent in flatwoods, and the remainder in the 

 rolling uplands. 



Second growth covers over 4}/ 2 million acres, of 

 which 35 percent is in sawlog-size stands, 57 per- 



