The tribe produce excellent winnowing baskets, rattan hammocks, and other household containers. In South Florida, it lives in pinelands, tropical hardwood hammocks, and mixed freshwater swamp forests. Its habitat includes the edges of tropical hardwood hammocks, scrub, and pine rocklands. Slash pines and loblolly pines are found in many mesic hammocks. They make their home in hammocks, forests or swamps. Most individuals slept in fashioned hammocks, but grass beds were also used. There are numerous Federally listed animals that depend upon or utilize tropical hardwood hammocks. Some hammocks feature a mosquito net and storage pockets. It is found in open woods, forest clearings, hammocks, and disturbed areas. Monitoring of tropical hardwood hammocks and their management is also critical. The southern live oak is the most common tree in mesic hammocks. This technique is used for bags, hammocks, headbands and scarves. The moats around the hammocks protect the trees. Rivers in the park support hammocks and floodplain forests. Efforts to create tropical hardwood hammocks began as early as 1965.