Natural Communities
Betsy Purdum
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The most extensive natural communities on Caravelle are pine flatwoods, floodplain swamp and bottomland forests, and improved pasture.
Aerial photos from the 1940s indicate that flatwoods on both the east and the
west sides of SR 19 were sparsely populated with slash pine interspersed
with numerous small (less than 5 acres) bayhead and cypress swamps.
FWC has contracted with the Florida
Natural Areas Inventory to map natural communities and collect
data on vegetation structure and composition for each community
on 25 managed areas. You may view or print the Natural
Communities Map (pdf file) for Caravelle
Ranch.
