Forest Management Units

The Forest Management Zones consists of three types of forest management.

Maintenance category (635 acres in green) includes the mature wood stands that are the better quality woodlands. These consist of hardwoods such as mixed oak, with some hickory and sugar maple. Maintenance forest management would primarily focus on the removal of invasive species and forest stand activities such as vine removal from key trees.

Improvement category (188 acres in blue) includes the better quality successional areas that are adjacent to the mature woodlands. These areas contain some small oaks, bitternut hickory, elm, cherry with gray dogwoods on the edges. Forest management would allow these areas to continue succession utilizing forest stand activities toward selective trees release. Here again the focus will be on removal of invasive species. This category will be reviewed every 5 years for status of growth.

Leave category (232 acres in orange) includes the woodlands in the drainage ways. Predominant species are silver maple, cottonwood, elm and box elder. No management activities will occur in these except invasive specie removal.