"The Kendrick manuscript illustrates and fully supports the claims of many that there was and still is a lot of gold in the green . . . Cleverly elevates the value of Florida"s renewable natural resources and clearly lets you see the forests and the trees. When it comes to forest history, there is simply not another work like it!"-- Jeff Doran, executive vice president, Florida Forestry Association "An excellent account of how important Florida"s forests have been in providing the capital to permit exciting and rapid growth and development during the last 150 years; moreover, we"re still enjoying vast increasing areas of beautiful and useful trees."-- Jacob B. Huffman, University of Florida Five hundred years ago, when Ponce de Leon landed on the shores of Florida, 27 million acres of virgin timber--chiefly longleaf, slash pine and large areas of cypress, loblolly pine, sand pine, palms, and oaks--covered the land...