A History of Florida Forests

by Baynard Kendrick and Barry Walsh

Five hundred years ago, when Ponce de Leon landed on the shores of Florida, 27 million acres of virgin timber--chiefly longleaf, slash pine and large areas of cypress, loblolly pine, sand pine, palms, and oaks--covered the land that constitutes the state today. Of the 15 million acres now forested, 12 million are privately held. This lively, 500-year history of Florida's forests begins before the Spaniards colonized the state, when Native American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813030226
• ISBN13: 9780813030227
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.4"