Long Leaf Pine
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- Date created
- April 29, 2006
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The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is native to the southeastern United States. Longleaf pines once covered 30 to 60 million acres of land on the southeastern coastal plains, but their numbers have been drastically reduced due to logging. Because longleaf pines were once a major source of naval stores, they were very important to the North Carolina economy.
