Muddy Brook is an extensive property made up of two parcels. The smaller, northern tract
is a mix of abandoned pastures and orchards, marsh, swamp, and upland forest. The larger
southern tract, bisected by Patrill Hollow Road, contains mixed upland oak-hickory and
white pine forest, remnant sandplain communities, and acidic shrub marshes. Muddy
Brook is an exceptionally unique area given the glacial lake delta that supports a fireadapted sandplain ecosystem containing pitch pine, scrub oak, dwarf chestnut oak,
American hazelnut, lowbush blueberry, huckleberry and interspersed patches of little
bluestem.