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The environmental history of the Throughfall Displacement Experiment (TDE) site is typical of much of the land on the Oak Ridge Reservation. The land was used for a mix of traditional and subsistence agriculture, including cleared pastures, woodland pastures, cultivated crops, and home sites from the mid-1800s until 1942. Following the 1942 acquisition of the area for the Manhattan Project, all agriculture was abandoned, and most of the landscape reverted to forest.
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Huston, M.A., Todd, D.E., Barlar, D.G. (2003). Long-Term Forest Dynamics and Tree Growth at the TDE Site on Walker Branch Watershed. In: Hanson, P.J., Wullschleger, S.D. (eds) North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes. Ecological Studies, vol 166. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0021-2_24
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