Trees rely on stored sugars and starches, collectively termed non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs), for metabolism, transport, defense, osmoregulation and as a buffer during stressful events when photosynthesis is impaired. Stress may mediate how plants allocate sugars and starches to growth versus storage; therefore, measuring NSCs is a key part of understanding how trees are responding to the interacting stressors of fragmentation and water availability in the CLIFF experiment. This summer, we will process stem wood samples from the first three years of the CLIFF experiment to explore how tree carbon storage responds to forest fragmentation, drought, and their interaction. We expect that NSCs will be higher in trees closer to a forest edge because trees on edges have greater access to light and nutrients. Further, we expect NSCs will be lowest in trees in the water-limited treatment, and highest in the water-addition treatment, because water availability strongly controls photosynthesis. However, these relationships may be modified by growth-storage tradeoffs.