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Photographic History of our Tree Farm on a Phosphate Mining Clay Settling Pond Area
Common Purpose InstituteUniversity of Florida/IFASOctober, 2003
Phosphate Mining Clay Settling Pond Site created in the 1940’s.
Heavy clay soils at our Site reach depths of 30 to 60 feet.
(1) Native Cypress Upland
(2) ClaySettling
Pond
(3) CogongrassPrairie
(4) Tree Farm Bridge Crops
Using Energy Crop Trees as Bridge Crops To return CSAs to Native Uplands --
Creating a “Market Cash Flow Engine” to Fund Restoration
Our Bridge Crops stabilize Sites by controlling Cogon (shading) and also build Soil Quality to support Natives