"The scrub is 70 percent of the Ocala National Forest," said Janet Hinchee of the U.S. Forest Service. "What I love about the scrub — it's amazing anything grows here at all because it's so harsh.

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The Vandalur scrub forest is the original natural forest of this area as indicated by veteran forester J.S. Gamble in the 1900s.