Top of hill grades to oak-hickory/blueberry. Landscape is fragmented by small tract ownership, residences and roads.;Terraced north facing slope in a dissected plateau landscape of low hills. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by oaks (red, chestnut, white) and hickory with sugar maple in the subcanopy and shrub layers. Relatively little woody debris and few snags suggest that stand is second growth following clearing or fire.
Representativeness
Plot covers entire steep and part of flat of terrace step. Small to medium size patch of older oak-hickory forest, may represent pre-settlement matrix forest - Jim Renth dissertation samples forest in this preserve.