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Fig. 15. A farm field in Somerset County, New Jersey. The farm of which this field was a part was used continuously from the early 1700's but was abandoned in 1983. Shown here in 1984, the field has since been added to the holdings of the Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center to help buffer the old-growth forest at the center from encroaching suburban development.
© S. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies