Sooy Preserve
A more unique area of the pinelands, containing a large black gum forest along with many other upland and wetland forests. The wetlands and uplands in this preserve are not limited to black gum. Within the wetlands, you will also find Atlantic white cedar forests, oak forests, and pine forests.
Black gum forest
Pine, cedar, and black gum
Upland forest
Blackgum Forests
Sooy Preserve hosts much of the New Jersey pine barrens' black gum forests and trees. Along the Michael Huber Preserve, this area is covered in black gum trees.
Blackgum bark
Blackgum twig and leaves during late August
Blackgum forest
Blackgum forests are found within wetlands and uplands.
Blackgum leaves during late summer and the upland forest
Blackgum trunk split into two parts
Oak and Uplands
Within Sooy Preserve, the upland forests that surround the blackgum forests contain many plains of scrub oak mixed in with pine.
Approaching the blackgum forest
Scrub oak plain
Late afternoon trail