It is typically found in low-elevation forests, small woodlots, fields, pastures and hedgerows. Fixating the soil is often done through the use of shelter belts, woodlots and windbreaks. The land owned by the Forest Service is intermingled with private farms and woodlots. Farming is the main watershed use, although woodlots and wetlands are present. For the most part, Essex County is flat farmland, with some woodlots. Investors paid Great Southern a fee to lease plantation woodlots. Other words for groups of trees include,clump and woodlots etc. On the Great Plains woodlots were scarce, but not so elsewhere. These correspond to old woodlots between fields.