OLD-FIELD SUCCESSION : Looking west from grid stake G5.
January 1997

In the foreground is an area that will become Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot.

In the background is upland pine.

February 2007

In the foreground is Old-field Plot C, a 40-year-rotation plot started in 2000. The saltbush north of gridline 5 was cut to allow succession in the northern two-thirds of the plot to be more nearly "normal."

In the background are partially restored upland pine and the DPI compound.