Excerpt from Forest Resources of South Florida, 1949 Acreage of forest land: Approximately 42 percent of the total land area in South Florida is occupied by forests. However, one - third of the forest land is considered nonproductive because it lacks the capacity to produce timber of commercial size or because the timber is so scattered and isolated it could not be economically harvested. In 1949, about million acres in this Survey Unit were classified as commercial forest land. The original survey in 1936 found very nearly the same acreage in commercial forest land, indicating little, if any, change during the period. It is interesting to note that marsh lands in the Everglades occupy a slightly greater acreage in the Unit than the forests do. The forest and marsh areas combined make up nearly 86 percent of the total land area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.