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> FLORIDA'S NATURAL RESOURCES
All of Florida is located within the region of the United States known as the Coastal Plain. It is actually a series of terraces, caused by shifts of the ocean depths and great changes in climate. The soils of the peninsular are quite diverse, ranging from well drained, sandy loams and loamy sands of North Florida to the poorly drained peats and muck lands of Lake Okeechobee. The great central orange belt is mainly well drained sands, while the coastal lowlands are of poorly drained sands and loamy sands thinly over non calcareous materials, consisting of mixtures of sand, silt, and clay.
This diversity of soils provides a rich abundance of different vegetation, the most important being the hardwood and pine forests of North Florida. Live oak, red oak, laurel oak, hickory, dogwood, sweet gum, and redbud provided Florida with an early industry.
Florida lacks great amounts of precious minerals or oil, but phosphate provided Florida with a mining industry.
Florida is endowed with an abundance of animal and plant life which not only simplified making a living to the original human inhabitants, but provides important industries for today's Floridians. Over eighty species of land mammals dwell in Florida, from the black bear to the tiny field mouse. Most people, however, remember Florida as the major domain of the alligator and American crocodile, almost extinct in other places of this land.
Four hundred species of wild birds are Florida natives. The rookeries around the lake regions, coastal marshes, and the Everglades attract millions of migratory birds making these places still paradises for bird watchers.
Floridians found the local waters filled with seven hundred species of fish. Fishing is still a vital part of the Florida life style despite the serious pollution of Florida lakes and fish. Record bass, catfish, perch, and trout as well as ocean fish like pompano, snapper, snook, and grouper is well recorded. The big game fish like sailfish and tarpon are famous in Florida.
Much of this environment is challenged by one of the last species to arrive in Florida: man. Despite being the second largest state in area east of the Mississippi River, Florida has become the fourth most populated state. Its long, thin shape places people in vulnerable locations. The state's size often gives Floridians the confidence there is plenty of open spaces. An automobile trip from Key West to Pensacola is 900 miles.
With Florida's near absence of seasons and sunshine, the plant life of Florida is also extensive. While visitors to the state seek out the swamplands for cypress and the lower coast for pam trees, North Florida is one of the great forested regions in the East.
The amount of sunlight and rain allows for the success of almost four thousand species of plants in Florida. History has often shown that plants and animals and reptiles grow too well in Florida. The importation of foreign plants and animals and fish have often had damaging effects of native species. In any case, Florida is a unique and distinctive place.