| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Book Review

Looking for Longleaf: The Rise and Fall of an American Forest. By Lawrence S. Early. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. x+322 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $27.50.

A book in the classic tradition of environmental history, Looking for Longleaf: The Rise and Fall of an American Forest takes us through the natural history of the Longleaf pine forest to the present. Along the way, we learn of the diverse soils and ecotones this formerly very wide-ranging tree inhabited, along with the rich floral diversity that accompanied this magnificent pine. But its other virtues were its downfall: remarkably hard for a pine, its timber was prized for ship building and many other uses. Full of oleoresin, it supplied the turpentine industry—and it yielded tar and pitch. Taken for granted due to its vast range— nearly 150,000 square miles from the James River in southeastern Virginia as far south as the shores of Lake Okeechobee in the Florida peninsula and west to southeastern Texas—it has nearly entirely disappeared.

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