Large areas have rich successional forest w/ sugar and black maples, cherry, ash, elm and abundant spicebush. Just upstream is huge pipeline corridor! ATV trail runs below plot in creek bottom.;North facing slope bottom above a small creek. Fine textured soils may be enriched by limestone(?) Community is a decisuous forest dominated by sugar maple in all strata, with scattered larger beech, elm, and red oak. Herb layer is diverse, including a high number of ferns.
Representativeness
Matrix forest of cool slope positions, but now confined to small patches within more successional matrix. Plot with large beech and red oak thought to be more natural. = mixed mesophytic forest.