Glades

A natural piece of land in the middle of a forest that has few or no trees. This would happen mainly due to rocks with little soil for tree growth. Hence a glade instead of a forest. Because of the lack of soil the glade holds little water for plant growth. Hence the desert types of plants that grow there.

Eastern Red cedars will grow in this area. The tree cover will allow water to be caught and this changes plant adaptation to the area.

To restore a glade the cedars need to be cut and allowed to dry for at least 1 year. Then a prescribed burn is done to rid the ground of invading plants that are not adaptive to a glade environment. The fire also prepares the ground for glade type plants to grow.

I know of a glade type area in Hodge park. Looking through the photos to find a picture of it I was not successful. So I thought I would go back out there and find it and take a photo. It is not large enough to be classified as a glade.

Some of this information was found from this article.
Glade