Dryer positions and aspects grade to oak-white pine. Steep north aspect bluff slope has hemlock - oak (BLUW.4). Evergreen signature on plateau around powerline cut is successional pine.;Gently sloping plateau above a steeper drop off into creek/river gorge. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by a mixture of oaks, shagbark hickory, and sugar maple. Cucumber magnolia is abundant in subcanopy. Shrub layer has maple leaf viburnum, spicebush, and ash and hickory regen.
Representativeness
Medium size patch of oak-hickory-sugar maple forest, repeated as matrix forest on intermediate aspects.