Agricultural valley with bottom forests confined to riverside positions.;Floodplain forest along the Tygart Valley River. Fluvial topography with a levee along the river edge with swales and more levees further back. Lows near back of terrace may approach wetland status. Flotsam piles behind large trees in the hollows looks like some may have been deposited during this growing season.
Representativeness
Plot represents small patch of floodplain forest. Location coincides with plot sampled by Walter Veselka for his thesis on developing an index of biotic integrity for WV wetlands (WVU)