The pine forest is beginning to give way to a secondary forest of hardwoods and slow growing red cedars. Around the stream and along the boundaries of the terraces, large hardwoods thrive including some oaks, but mostly tulip poplar and swamp maple trees. Understory dogwoods are prevalent, some having reached diameters of ten to twelve inches over their fifty years of life. Smaller shrubs like mountain loral can be found. Vinca Minor has become prolific as a ground cover in some areas, as has the naturally-occurring Ground Cedar.
Occasional deer pass through the area, and a pair of silver fox have been observed.
The racoons and possum are perenial inhabitants. It took about two years for the gray squirrels to move back into the area once the house was built, but some residents such as pheobes have nested annually under the front porch eves from the time the house was completed. Bats also navigate this one acre clearing amid the trees. If you are fortunate, you might get a glimpse of the flying squirrels that live in hollow trees. They can be seen peering out of their holes and scurring around the trunk, only to leap into the air and glide to another tree.