management goals
- Timber products
- Hunting
- Active recreation - ATV trails, access roads, shooting ranges
- Soil and water conservation
- Wildlife habitat
- Bird watching
- Hiking
- Camping
- Orienteering
- Firewood
- Maple production
Mature forest community conservation
Pit and mound topography requires successional generations of mature forest to form, or hundreds of years for a forest floor to begin to exhibit these characteristics - that is after mature trees have aged out and fallen back to the forest floor.
Vernal pools may form in the pits of the forest floor and support a wide variety of wildlife
Salamanders and other amphibians travel miles to reach ancestral pools
