Wallace Hartman Nature Preserve

Most of the forest can be classified as mixed-mesophytic, regardless of age. The younger stands in the north are dominated by yellow poplar and red maple, and the older stands in the center and south have much more canopy species diversity. This forest type is the most geographically extensive forest community and is best characterized as ‘mature’ second-growth mixed-mesophytic forest. In these older sections of the forest, various species of oak, maple, hickory, and beech dominate.

While the property is mostly second and some third-growth forest, it has an area of older forest that is increasingly comparable to old-growth, particularly along the eastern portion of the property