This document summarizes the open source Landis-ii project, which simulates forest succession and dynamics over large landscapes. It tracks various forest data types over time. The project uses C# and has over 15 extensions. The document discusses the project details, technology used including its SVN repository, legal Apache 2.0 license, documentation needs improvement for new developers, the author's small proof-of-concept contribution to convert text files to XML, and challenges in working with the large codebase within an eight week school term.