{"id":3230,"date":"2024-12-17T23:55:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanylandtrust.org\/?page_id=3230"},"modified":"2024-12-17T23:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:55:41","slug":"grobe-preserve","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bethanylandtrust.org\/Test\/preserves\/mendells-folly-complex\/grobe-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Grobe Preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Grobe Preserve is a natural area of 25.2 acres in the northwestern Bethany greenway purchased from the Mendell\/Grobe family. It is an important conservation tract because of its continuous forested habitats, wildlife utility, aesthetics, protected network connectivity, landscape position, and provision of ecosystem services. It is a topographically complex parcel with steep to moderate slopes, valley features, and at least three summits ranging to about 700\u2019 above sea level.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The Grobe Preserve is part of continuous forest block of 186 acres, whose geometry fosters sensitive forest-interior-dwelling wildlife and whose size serves as both reservoirs of diversity and as sources for wildlife that will range beyond the preserve\u2019s borders. The Grobe Preserve\u2019s complex terrain provides a wide range of growing conditions from drier hilltops to mesic lowland valley locales. The woodland is in the understory reinitiation stage of forest succession, and past logging activity (ca. 20 years ago) has generated additional diversity in the realms of light regimes, age classes, and structural elements. The primary cover type is deciduous forest growing on a stony substrate. Oak, maple, birch, hickory, black cherry, and tulip poplar are the most common tree species with an occasional eastern white pine seen.<\/p>

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