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Piney Woods
The
Piney Woods
is a
tropical and subtropical coniferous forest
terrestrial ecoregion
in the
Southern
United States
covering of
East Texas
, southern
Arkansas
, western Louisiana, and
southeastern Oklahoma
. These coniferous forests are dominated by several species of
pine
as well as
hardwoods
including
hickory
and
oak
.
Historically
the most dense part of this forest region was the
Big Thicket
though the lumber industry dramatically reduced the forest concentration in this area and throughout the Piney Woods during the 19th and 20th centuries. The
World Wide Fund for Nature
considers the Piney Woods to be one of the critically endangered ecoregions of the United States. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines most of this ecoregion as the
South Central Plains
.
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