Commonly cultivated trees include loblolly pine, longleaf pine, cherrybark oak, and cottonwood. Slash pines and loblolly pines are found in many mesic hammocks. Conifers are also abundant, including shortleaf pine, loblolly pine. The tree species was a native loblolly pine. The park is dominated by loblolly pine and shortleaf pine trees. These rolling hills are now covered with loblolly and shortleaf pines, and upland hardwoods. The most common evergreens are the shortleaf pine and the loblolly pine. Longleaf, shortleaf, and loblolly pines, along with bluejack and post oaks, dominate sandhills. The paper industry encouraged growth of loblolly and slash pines. It frequently hybridizes naturally with loblolly pine and pitch pine where their ranges intersect. The most common type of tree in the southwest Piney Woods is the loblolly pine. The loblolly pine harbors an average load of at least eight lethal equivalents. Loblolly pine seeds were carried aboard the Apollo 14 flight. Slash Pine generally contains a higher concentration of resin acids than Loblolly Pine. The 428-acre restoration project was dedicated as the Loblolly Marsh Wetland Preserve in 1997.