After leaving the group for personal reasons in 2003 Heuer was replaced by mutual friend Richard Bruce, also bassist with Bad Taste Records' Turtlehead, who had recently returned from an extended tour of Europe.
It preserves Virginia's best remaining example of a coastal plain pond complex, and supports several locally-rare species including pond spice, Cuthbert's turtlehead, Mabee's Salamander, barking treefrog and the globally imperiled Harper's fimbristylis.