OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION : Looking north from grid stake F5.
January 1997
This area is to become Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot.
Some of Plot C has yet to be cleared, but the portion in the foreground was cleared prior to the start of NATL-for disposal of clay excavated during the construction of the medical center.
February 2007
Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot started in 2000.
All trees except longleaf pines were cleared from the plot before its start.
Plot A, a 10-year-rotation plot started in 2002, lies between Plot C and the Phillips Center.