The 1500-acre Montague Plain Wildlife Management Area has been the focus of research on fire ecology for many years. It preserves an outstanding example of a dry outwash pitch pine-scrub oak barren natural community. Paleoecological evidence suggests that fire has been a common occurrence here well before European settlement when prehistoric indigenous people used fire as a landscape management tool. The site supports more than 20 species of conservation concern, both plant and animal. Hike through areas treated mechanically and burned at different seasons over the last 12 years, exploring the impacts of fire on plant and animal ecology. Bring water, a lunch and appropriate footwear.