Upslope to the north ~100m is a successional virginia pine forest. There is a small itermittent drainage ~30m below the plot. Much of the area appears to have been cleared. There are several rock piles with trees growing in them across the slope. There is a gated road ~500m west of the plot. The New River is 300m beyond that. See plots BLUW.1,3 and 5 for more context.;Likely a scuccessional forest coming in after the area was cleared for agriculture and then left to go wild after the land was aquired by the Army Corps. The forest appears to be third growth. It is dominated by a mixture of oak species and white pine. The tree cover is getting difficult to estimate. Many of the trees have lost a third of their leaves and the forb layer is brown and withered.
Representativeness
Small patch of white pine-mixed oak dominated forest on a northwest facing slope. Similar to plots sampled at BLUE.
