Miller Woods

Miller Woods is a 40-acre nature preserve with ten acres of old-growth, surrounded by 30 acres of early-mid successional growth where the last logging took place approximately 55 years ago.Within the old-growth, dominant species are American beech and sugar maple. Several trees had core samples taken from University of Michigan and were found to be over 350 years old.

When the property was sold by the Miller family in 1971 to the Plymouth- Canton school district, they requested the ten acres be kept as a nature preserve because they had never cut trees in that area either, instead using as a wood lot and for tapping the Sugar Maples. The surrounding 30 acres was originally intended for future school building but due to population shifts, it was never built. It has been left to transition from farm land to sun-loving species/meadow and now the property is densely populated by aspens and cottonwoods along with beginnings of shade-tolerant species.