RE: Wet clay need help!
farm hunter; you'd have my regional forester pulling his hair out. We walked my property last fall to line up this springs plantings. He changed the plantings in my poor drainage areas from pine and spruce to cedars. It sounds like the same setup as you're talking about: 1-2 feet of soil over solid dolostone. Wet in the spring, dries out in the summer due to thin soil cover.
Dan O.