Alabama

            The state tree of Alabama is the Southern pine. Alabama’s state flower is the Camellia. Alabama is known as the "Land of Cotton." Although cotton is not its main crop anymore,  it is still important to its economy. More acres are now devoted to soybeans and corn as well as peanuts and different melons.

           Today over 25% of Alabama's employment is in  manufacturing and construction. Some of Alabama's natural resources are iron ore, coal, and limestone. These resources make Alabama a major steel-producing state and Birmingham the iron and  steel capital of the South. The state also has one of the best water-transport systems in the Southern states. Mobile Bay links the Gulf of Mexico  to the city of  Mobile, making it a major water transport city. The state also has a vast forest area of pine and hardwood trees, with about 22 million acres of commercial forestland; a huge increase since the 1950s.