Ficure 15.—Florida counties in which commodity drain of pine 5 inches d.b.h. and larger exceeded growth during the year 
of South Florida, where the turpentine trees are 
generally too scattered for naval stores operation, the 
State has 11.6 million acres of turpentine pine type.* 
Only 5 percent of this area, 629,000 acres, was being 
worked for naval stores in 1949. Resting timber, i.e., 
front face worked out and back face not yet started, 
occupied an additional 514,000 acres. Another 1.5 
‘million acres were stocked with stands of 15 or more 
_ *Areas on which 25 percent or more of the number of 
dominant and codominant trees are longleaf or slash pine. 
The Timber Supply Situation in Florida 
1948. 
round turpentine pines of working size per acre, 
in which no turpentining had been started. In these 
stands there are about seven times as many round 
pines of turpentine size as were being worked in 1949, 
The remainder of the large acreage in the turpen- 
tine pine type consists of 458,000 acres of worked-out 
and abandoned timber and 8.5 million acres without 
enough turpentine pines of working size to make the 
stands operable. Some of these stands will become 
operable when the younger trees grow larger. How- 
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