of pine pulpwood, poles, and sawlogs for the raw 
material of industfy. 
More than one-half of the forest land is flatwoods, 
low, level, poorly drained areas chiefly confined to 
broad belts flanking the Atlantic Ocean and the 
Gulf of Mexico. The flatwoods are dominated by 
slash pine and longleaf pine and are dotted with 
many small cypress ponds. Inward from the flatwoods 
are the low rolling uplands, extending across north- 
western Florida and as a central ridge down the 
peninsula nearly to Lake Okeechobee. These uplands 
are covered principally with longleaf pine and scrub 
oak in pure and mixed stands. Both slash and longleaf 
pine occur on the wetter parts of the rolling uplands. 
Good stands of hardwoods, often mixed with pine, 
grow on the sandy-loam areas, such as those north 
of Tallahassee and near Gainesville. Both the flat- 
woods and the rolling uplands are broken by numer- 
ous streams, swamps, and shallow ponds. These low- 
lands are the habitat of cypress, and a variety of 
hardwoods, including sweetgum, black and water 
tupelo, sweetbay, magnolia, and numerous species of 
LEGEND 
SITE QUALITY 
GOOD 
75 FEET AND TALLER 
Y SO YIISFUTE. 
“YG | gy 
Es Z 
HEIGHT OF TREES 
AT 50 YEARS 
54 FEET AND SHORTER 
SS FEET TO 64 FEET 
65: FEETATO 74 FEET. 
Ficure 19.—Site quality of the pine land in Florida. 
The Timber Supply Situation in Florida 
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