A Beauty That You Can't Manufacture
Longleaf Forest Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge photograph by Jack Culpepper I finally made a decision on flooring for the cabin. Last week I placed an order with Goodwin Heart Pine Company for antique longleaf pine flooring. Longleaf Pine once covered the southeastern United States, but it was harvested to near extinction during the building boom of the late 1800's and early 1900's. Only a small percentage of original longleaf remains, and for the most part, it's not planted anymore because of the slow growth rate. It might take 100 years to get a mature longleaf and no one has time for that anymore. The slow growth is also what produces the highly sought after, beautiful, tight grained heart pine.