A new page, moving up into the actual bend of the river for which the park is named.
Open fields and pine plantations.
The open fields are extensive and very overgrown. It will be interesting to see how the park manages these fields. From an orienteering standpoint, it would be great if they were cut and burned occasionally. If not, they will grow back into forest, a process that can take decades. We've got plenty of forest. (It's hard to see in that picture, but that's a nice gully that I added to the map).
The pine plantations are planted in rows. Sometimes very thick, sometimes very open, with rows wide enough to drive a truck down. Those were all former fields and pastures, converted at some point to trees. They need thinning and burning too. The thinning that was done further south in the park did not come up this far.
If there are fields and pastures there must be old barns and buildings. If there are old buildings there must be lots and lots and lots of trash. Including glass bottles.
There is a lot of territory in the bend of the river - over two pages of basemap. I'll be up here for quite a while.
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