Well I haven't gone in to much definition on the woods part of the farm, I was out there this morning so I thought I would take some pics and go over it.
I try to be very low impact on the woods, most of the year it's hands off I leave it to the wildlife only really walking it in late winter and spring a few times...other than that I try to leave it be.
It is mostly a hardwoods a mix of red/white oak, walnut, hickory, cherry and hard maple with some odd native stuff mixed in. It is around fifteen acres (a long fifteen) and slowly spreading bigger, it was select logged around ten years ago so we have a bunch of new low growth, it gets thicker every year. We had the big ash die off and most of those have blown down now and I pretty much just let them lay were they drop, we don't use much fire wood and the dead ones are good for bedding cover and lots of wildlife. The center of the woods kind of floods a couple times a year, if we get a lot of rain I might have from a few inches to a foot of standing water down parts of the middle third of the woods for a couple weeks. Some spots are kind of open but most of it is getting hard to see more than twenty or thirty yards or so in the woods at ground level. The south side is a few feet higher than the north side of woods. We have some really big trees maybe 60'-70' feet tall, I think a couple of the tallest are some old hickory's and huge black locust, but the majority of the trees are from seedlings to half grown. We plan on select logging again to open the canopy up and generate a little revenue in about ten years.
We have hunted the farm for close to ten years, we leased for a few years before buying it so we have been able to see the change in the woods in the last decade.
A couple cherry trees, they seem to grow in clusters I never just see just one by itself. As soon as they get nice sized about as big around as the steering wheel of my truck they usually die for some reason.
The older hazelnut strip along woods is doing well, most of the catkins have been eatin by the birds already, they were loaded a few weeks ago.
Some big oaks along the back of the woods, turkeys love to roost in them and every few years they really put some acorns down.
A huge old locust tree
Another big oak
A pileated woodpecker was after something on this cherry tree
A big old tree that we call "The Knee"
An oak that I see turkeys roosting in a lot
I had to back up a little way to get this pic, a huge old Harry Potter looking oak that probably saw Indians walk under it
And we have about a dozen sycamore trees in the woods, a few are pretty big. I've always really liked sycamores maybe it's from the Zacchaeus story in the Bible.
