OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION : Looking south from grid stake G3.
January 1997

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

February 2007

On the left of the trail is Old-field Plot B. The portion visible was last tilled in 2005.

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

Trees are longleaf pines that were left standing to provide greater genetic diversity for NATL's upland-pine ecosystem.

Beyond the sign that is in the far foreground are Plot D on the left of the trail and Plot C on the right.