Live Oaks on Blackbeard Island

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The durable timber from live oaks, plentiful on Blackbeard Island, was used for shipbuilding in the first half of the nineteenth century. The island was purchased as a federal timber reserve by the U.S. Navy Department in 1800.

Courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Live Oaks on Blackbeard Island

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