A lush debris field remains from a tornado that ravaged the high mountaintop that surrounds the Camp David presidential compound in Maryland’s Catoctin National Park.

The passage of several years has converted what initially resembled a linear bulldozer path of wind damage into a dense thicket of berries and hardwood saplings — food for the park’s whitetailed deer herd, as well as nesting habitat for songbirds.

The tornado scar intersects Maryland Route 77 at the National Park entrance sign and continues through a high ground forest of sugar maple, oak and beech.