Florida Division of Forestry Appendix 5: Wetland Types
Silviculture Best Management Practices
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Special Management Zones

Best Management Practices

Appendices

Glossary

 


COMMON WETLAND TYPES *

Bay Heads
Bogs
Bottomland Hardwood Swamps
Cypress Strand Swamps
Cypress Domes
Cypress Ponds
Flag Ponds
Freshwater Tidal Swamps
Grass Ponds
Gum Ponds
Gum Swamps
Hydric Hammock
Pitcher Plant Bogs
River & Creek Floodplain Swamps
Sawgrass Marshes
Seasonal Marshes
Seepage Slopes
Seepage Swamps
Sloughs
Strand Swamps
Wet Prairie
Willow Head

*NOTE: For purposes of BMP implementation, Pine Flatwoods is not considered a wetland although sites of this nature may exhibit some of the same charateristics of the wetlands listed above.

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