A forest's microtopography (small-scale, physical landscape features) can shift after a hurricane or similar storm disturbance. Pits spot the forest floor as a result of felled trees creating low points that have the potential to exacerbate anaerobic soil processes and in turn produce two potent greenhouse gasses (GHGs): methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N20). In addition, downed trees add soil organic matter (SOM) to the forest floor, providing microbes access to fuel for respiration. The key question is whether a disturbance in microtopography to temperate forests causes a significant change in forest soil GHG flux. At the Harvard Forest LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) Site in Petersham, Massachusetts, a hurricane event was simulated in 1990. Approximately 2/3 of the trees were felled resulting in a pattern of pits and mounds persisting along the forest floor. This study follows up on the study published by Bowden et al. in 1993 where results showed N2O emissions to be significantly lower in the pulldown plot, and conversely, CH4 uptake rates were routinely greater in the control plot than pulldown. To assess the effects nearly 35 years later, weekly, soil samples and gas measurements were taken from an untouched control plot and the pulldown plot to assess soil GHG flux and soil characteristics (i.e. moisture, texture, organic matter, redox chemistry). The pulldown plot is expected to have more potential anoxic microsites due to waterlogging, therefore, producing more methane and nitrous oxide emissions than the control plot. Alternatively, due to moist conditions and the passage of time, accessible carbon may be less available to microbes/used up, limiting the production of GHGs in the pulldown plot and signaling a recovery of forest and soil dynamics to what they once were. As the climate changes, the earth warms, and hurricane events become more frequent, the microtopography of temperate forests will be disturbed more often, creating conditions that favor the production of GHGs. Measuring soil respiration in response to microtopography alterations is crucial to understanding forest disturbance effects and resilience. Additionally, soil anoxic microsites and their contribution to GHG production are an understudied area of soil ecology, and understanding the contributing factors of GHG emissions in forests is essential to improving climate modeling.