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Fig. 16. A 10-year-old-field at the Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center. The herbaceous vegetation is dominated by asters and goldenrods. The evergreen trees in the field are eastern redcedar, and the broadleaved tree is a flowering dogwood. The wedge of dense, darker-colored vegetation in the upper left of the photograph is part of an adjacent older field, with the crowns of the oaks of the old-growth forest showing slightly above the successional trees.
© S. Pickett, Institute of Ecosystem Studies