Sunday, April 09, 2000
The graveyard of the trees
The Tornado: One Year Later
When hundreds of trees were felled at the 65-acre Hazelwood Botanical Preserve in Montgomery, not all the trees were removed. What remained became an experiment field for the University of Cincinnati's Biological Sciences Department.
A logging company cleared a 50-foot perimeter as a fire wall, but UC — which owns the land — decided against removing all the trees. What's left resembles a tree graveyard. The UC land abuts the Johnson Nature Preserve, which also sustained significant tree loss.
“The goal is to look at the recovery,” said Dr. Guy Cameron, head of the Biological Sciences Department. “Total recovery could take 100 years, but in one or two years, look at how plants and animals come back. It's a slow process.”
He added that a kind of moss has emerged already that hasn't been seen in this area in over 150 years.
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