OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION : Looking south from grid stake F5.
January 1997

The area in the foreground will become part of Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot.

In the background is a transition between hammock and upland pine ecosystems.

February 2007

Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot started in 2000.

This thicket of saltbush may have result from seeds that were in the muck excavated from SEEP and spread over the clay that was disposed of here during the construction of the medical center.