Question: In an effort to preserve wildlife on his farm in Massachusetts, a farmer decides to stop using a 10-acre field. The farmer fences off the area, stops cutting the grass, and stops allowing livestock to graze on it. After twenty years, the area would most likely

  Options: 
 A. be covered with moss and rocks.
 B. be a mature hardwood forest.
 C. be grown over with bushes and small trees.
 D. be barren due to lack of maintenance.
Answer: C