Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM  NETWORK, 8/11/16

Colossal stands of longleaf pines once dominated vast swaths of the United States from southeastern Virginia to Florida and west through Louisiana to Texas. But in the 18th and 19th centuries, more than 90 million acres of longleaf forest were obliterated to build ships and railroads.

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