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From the 18th century into the 1970s, the logging industry led to the mass culling of hardwood forests that used to cover the islands and could be as tall as 50 ft. In the 1990s, then president of the
Bahamas National Trust Pericles Maillis came across a remaining undisturbed patch of ancient forest,
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with an area of 7.5 acres, it is considered a time capsule of the old evergreen tropical hardwood forests of the
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