Meno-Aki Forest - Metea County Park

Oldest trees – approximate 300 years. Dominant trees/forest type – varies depending in where you are on the slope. Top= oaks. Middle = beeches and maples. Bottom = cottonwoods, silver maples, sycamores. Characteristics – large, mature trees, minimal undergrowth, wide variety of wildflowers (squirrel corn, Dutchman’s breeches, at least 4 trillium species, goldenseal), several species of land snails, Phengodes railroad worms. The area was too steep to log, farm or graze, but was used as a local dump in the distant past. Still some remnants of dump present (old fence wire, tractor and boiler parts). Old cars and appliances were removed when it became a park in 1985.