Brown's Farm Trail Stop 9: Forest Succession

The Brown's Farm Trail is an excellent place to understand the process o succession.

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From being once a farmstead to the growing ecosystem that it is today, the forest along the Brown's Farm Trail is a great place to witness the process of forest succession. As the forest matures, more hardwood saplings will take root and grow to dominate the landscape, replacing the pines, and eventaully culmintating in a climax state in which it will be considered an old-growth forest.