Table 2. — Forest area of northeastern Florida, classified according 

 to forest type and topographic situation l 



Forest type 2 



Flat- 

 woods 



Rolling 

 uplands 



Swamps, 

 bays, 

 etc. 



All situations 



Turpentine pine: 

 Longleaf pine 

 Longleaf-slash pine . . 



Acres 



1, 962, 400 



273, 600 



950, 900 



36, 300 



65, 500 



.teres 



894, 900 

 18,900 

 29, 100 



34, 600 



Acres 

 11, 800 



Acres 

 2,869. 100 



292, 500 

 4, 294, 600 



313,000 



178, 200 



Per- 

 cent 

 39.3 

 4.0 





314, 600 

 276, 700 



78, 100 



17.8 



Slash pine-cvpress 



Turpentine pine-hard- 

 wood... 



4.3 

 2.4 



Total 



3, 288, 700 



977, 500 



681, 200 



4, 947, 400 



67.8 



Nonturpentine pine: 



Nonturpentine pine 



Nonturpentine pine- 

 hardwood ... . .- 

 Scrub pine.. . _. ... 



249, 100 



24, 400 

 5,500 



74, 100 



48, 900 

 37, 100 



57, 600 



84, 400 

 3,900 



380, 800 



157, 700 

 46, 500 



5.2 



2.2 

 .6 



Total 



279, 000 



160, 100 



145, 900 



585, 000 



8.0 



Hardwood: 

 Bottom land and 

 swamp hardwood. . . 



Upland hardwood 



Scrub oak-scrub hard- 

 wood 



16, 600 

 11,800 



154, 500 



" 86, 000 

 428, 100 



631, 500 



648, 10(1 

 97, 800 



606, 300 



8.9 

 1.3 



23, 700 



8.3 



Total 



182, 900 



514, 100 



655. 200 



1. 352, 200 



18.5 









10, 200 





402, 900 



413, 100 



5.7 









(3, 760, 800 



1, 651, 700 



1, 885, 200 



7, 297, 700 





All types .. 



Percent 

 [ 51.5 



Percent 

 22.7 



Percent 

 25.8 











100.0 



1 Data for areas less than 70,000 acres are indicative only. 



2 For explanation of terms used sec p. 1. 



Table 3. — Composition of forest type groups, by species 

 [Expressed in percent of total cubic volume] I 



Species 



Longleaf 



Slash 



Loblolly 



Other pine 



Red gum 



Black gum 



Other pulping hardwoods... 



Red oaks 



White oaks 



Other nonpulping hard- 

 woods 



Cypress __ 



All species. 



Tur- 

 pen- 

 tine 

 pine 



35.6 



44.7 



1.6 



1.2 

 .5 

 2.9 

 1.2 



1.5 



9.7 



Non- 

 tur- 

 pen- 

 tine 

 pine 



1.7 

 3.8 

 52.4 

 16.8 

 6.5 

 2.5 

 4.2 

 5.3 

 1.9 



4.1 



100. 100. 



Hard- 

 wood 



0.7 



.9 



1.2 



.7 



11.6 



25.5 



17.6 



14.1 



3. 1 



16.4 

 8.2 



100. 



Cypress 



( 2 ) 



5.4 



.3 



.1 



.6 



8.6 



2.4 



2 



00 



1.5 

 80.9 



100. 



All 

 type 

 groups 



19.0 

 24.8 

 7.1 

 2.7 

 3.7 

 8.8 

 5.4 

 4.4 

 1.0 



5.2 

 17.9 



loo.o 



1 These figures are based on gross cubic volume outside bark and do not 

 include volume of sound and rotten cull trees, turpentine butts, or tops 

 and limbs of hardwoods and cypress, but do include sound scrub oak 

 which is ordinarily considered sound cull. 



2 Negligible. 



The pure slash pine type is second in importance, 

 occupying almost 18 percent of the forest area. 

 Slash pine is also the most important component of 

 the mixed types of this group, making up 52 percent 

 of the longleaf-slash, 47 percent of the slash-cypress, 



and 40 percent of the turpentine pine-hardwood 

 types. Unlike longleaf, which has withstood re- 

 peated burning even in the "grass" stage on the 

 drier sites, slash pine is confined largely to moist 

 situations, where a sufficient time elapses between 

 fires to permit its establishment. 



NONTURPENTINE PINE TYPES 



Types composed principally of loblolly, shortleaf, 

 pond, sand, 3 or spruce pines characterized only 8 

 percent of the forest area. Loblolly pine, which 

 makes up 60 and 42 percent of the nonturpentine 

 pine and nonturpentine pine-hardwood types, re- 

 spectively, is the principal species. This pine is 

 found throughout the survey unit on the more fer- 

 tile soils and in swamps along streams and has taken 

 over much of the abandoned farm land in the agri- 

 cultural sections of the uplands. 



HARDWOOD TYPES 



The bottom land and swamp hardwood type is 

 characteristic of the larger streams, the swamps, 

 and the branch heads. In this type black gum, red 

 gum, bay, red maple, magnolia, and other hard- 

 woods make up 88 percent of the cubic-foot volume. 

 The upland hardwoods have a larger proportion of 

 mixed oaks — often of good quality and form — on 

 the better sites. The scrub oak-scrub hardwood 

 type occurs where blackjack and other unmer- 

 chantable oaks and hardwoods occupy the land, 

 which is not expected to restock with pine. Al- 

 though found principally in the rolling uplands, this 

 type also occurs in the drier ridges in the fiatwoods 

 (table 2). 



CYPRESS TYPE 



Only one type, the pure cypress type, is included 

 within this group. It occurs almost entirely in the 

 deeper swamps and ponds characteristic of the flat- 

 woods area. Cypress makes up 81 percent of the 

 volume of this type; black gum, with nearly 9 per- 

 cent, is the second most abundant species. 



3 An almost pure sand pine type occupies more than 

 150,000 acres within the former boundaries of the Ocala 

 National Forest, which was not covered in this survey. 



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