 The former agricultural area was replanted with bottomland and upland hardwoods, short-leaf pines, and native warm season grasses in the 1990s.The Crossett Experimental Forest is a property donated by Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1934 to research forest management in second-growth loblolly pine and shortleaf pine forests.Within the Forest is the Reynolds Natural Area, a stand that has been largely untouched since the area's creation in 1934.