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Ozark-Ouachita: Dry Oak Woodland Young Regrowth

Area: 34,784 acres (14,076 ha)
Description of Mapped Type: This type is mapped on relatively dry site types and represents
mainly disturbed areas and may include pastures, forest edges, and clear-cuts where young
pines have been planted, although these areas could not be identified as having been clear-cut
between 2000 and 2012. Young trees and successional shrubs characterize the type.
Common woody species include post oak, black oak, blackjack oak, hickory species, winged
elm, slippery elm, common persimmon, sassafras, black cherry, eastern redbud, eastern
redcedar and sumac species. Vines such as poison ivy, Virginia creeper, greenbrier species,
and blackberry species are common.

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