Hagedorn Preserve

The 218-acre older-growth forest within the larger 592 acre Preserve is a Central Appalachian Dry-mesic Chestnut Oak – Northern Red Oak Forest. Red oak (Quercus rubra) and chestnut oak (Quercus montana) dominate the canopy, with smaller components of black oak (Quercus velutina), mockernut hickory (Carya tomentosa), and sassafras (Sassafras albidum). This older-growth area was never cleared for agriculture and remains relatively free of invasive plants. Red oaks measured 44.7” and 43.4” diameter in 2026 and estimated to date to the later part of the nineteenth century. Hagedorn’s older-growth forest area provides habitat for forest-interior migratory songbirds such as veery, wood thrush, ovenbird, and scarlet tanager, as well as red-bellied woodpecker and barred owls.

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