Imagining a Restored Savanna

 Picking up on the theme of oak savannas, here are a couple scenes from the top of Mt. Tammany in the Delaware Water Gap dividing New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Lowbush blueberries (red) grow beneath scattered chestnut oaks.

At Bennett Place, remnant thickets of lowbush blueberries survive half-buried in accumulated leaves and pine needles, beneath the post oaks and shortleaf pine. These photos show how the Bennett Place woodland might look if the savanna there were restored through thinning out of weedy tree species, allowing enough sunlight to reach the blueberries.