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                                         Mapped Type Name                                        Brief Description                                    Area (HA)       Area (AC)       Percent      Samples    Samples
                                                                This type mainly represents areas that are in recovery from past timber management in
                                                                the modern landscape, but could not be identified as plantations based on data from
                                         West Gulf Coastal      2000 - 2012.  Loblolly, or less commonly, shortleaf pines are a major component,
                                         Plain: Pine -          together with species such as white oak, southern red oak, post oak, hickory species,    18,967.6        46,869.8       0.105%            5           3
                                         Hardwood Forest
                                                                water oak, sweetgum, and sugar hackberry.  Common understory species include
                                                                farkleberry, American beautyberry, flowering dogwood, and hophornbeam.

                                                                In the modern landscape, this type most commonly represents planted loblolly, or less
                                                                frequently, shortleaf pine stands, but these areas could not be identified as pine
                                         West Gulf Coastal      plantations based on data from 2000 - 2012.  Stands were relatively mature at the time    6,909.1        17,072.8       0.038%            0           0
                                         Plain: Pine Forest     of data acquisition (circa 2012).  Pines are overwhelmingly dominant, and trees such as
                                                                white oak, southern red oak, sweetgum, water oak, and sugar hackberry may be
                                                                present.


                                                                This type is mapped over more or less deep sands and common trees include post oak,
                                         West Gulf Coastal      blackjack oak, water oak, southern red oak, and hickory species.  Shortleaf pine may
                                         Plain: Sandhill Oak    also be a component.  On the deepest sands, bluejack oak may be a component, and          2,209.2          5,459.0      0.012%            0           0
                                         Woodland               open stands may include herbaceous cover with species such as pinweed, Florida
                                                                snake-cotton, southern jointweed, and Alabama supplejack.

                                                                This type is mapped over more or less deep sands and shortleaf pine is a primary
                                         West Gulf Coastal      overstory component.  Other trees may include post oak, blackjack oak, water oak,
                                         Plain: Sandhill        southern red oak, and hickory species.  On the deepest sands, bluejack oak may be a          73.3           181.2       0.000%            0           0
                                         Shortleaf Pine         component, and open stands may include herbaceous cover with species such as
                                         Woodland
                                                                pinweed, Florida snake-cotton, southern jointweed, and Alabama supplejack.

                                         West Gulf Coastal      These areas were essentially unvegetated during all seasons at the time of data
                                         Plain: Small Stream    acquisition (circa 2012), and may represent river-scoured islands and stream edges.          18.6            46.1       0.000%            0           0
                                         Barrens

                                                                This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers, and
                                                                commonly represents successional shrublands or young woodlands in pastures.  These
                                         West Gulf Coastal      areas could not be confirmed as clear-cuts based on data from 2000 to 2012.  Common
                                         Plain: Small Stream    species may include winged elm, sugar hackberry, honeylocust, baccharis species, and        737.7          1,822.9      0.004%            0           0
                                         Deciduous Shrubland
                                                                possumhaw.  Species such as common buttonbush and river birch may occur near
                                                                stream edges.



                                         West Gulf Coastal      This type is mapped along first and second order streams within narrow buffers where
                                                                loblolly pine is the prevailing dominant.  These stands are commonly the result of past
                                         Plain: Small Stream    timber management, but these areas could not be identified as former clear-cuts based       667.8          1,650.2      0.004%            0           0
                                         Evergreen Woodland     on satellite remote sensing data from 2000 to 2012.  Common associated trees include
                                         and Shrubland
                                                                sweetgum, water oak, ash species, and elm species.




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