OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION : Looking west from grid stake F4.
January 1997

This area is to be cleared to become part of Old-field Plots C and A.

Blackened pine trunks are from the first controlled burn of upland pine (in 1996).

February 2007

In the left foreground is Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot started in 2000.

In the right foreground is Old-field Plot A, a 10-year-rotation plot started in 2002.

The trail between successional plots ends at the fire lane in the foreground; beyond is partially restored upland pine.