Downslope grades quickly to shrub wetland with similar physiognomy: Upland matrix here is spruce woodland and young forest.;Rolling plateau along the Eastern Continental Divide. Rocky, wind swept plains impacted by past clearing, burning, grazing, and motor biking. Community here is a low shrubland dominated by chokeberry, huckleberry, and blueberry, with wintergreen and dewberry. Community is probably a long persistent successional type which may have occurred pre european settlement under natural or native American burn regime.
Representativeness
Small patch of short-shrub / grassland upslope from similar physiognomy in wetland. Rectangle plot to sample +- uniform physiognomy and hydrologic status.