Roadless state forest with white pine, hemlock and oak forests on sterile stubstrates derived from shale and sandstone. Road construction and logging is proposed in the Burr Valley area.;Ridge shoulder with west aspect in a convoluted dissected plateau landscape. Community is a woodland or forest dominated by medium sized oaks over a dense evergreen shrub layer. One large scarlet oak recently came down in the plot, creating a canopy gap and leaving dominance to younger cohorts. White pine is mixed in subcanopy.
Representativeness
Small patch of oak-ericad with dense Pieris floribunda in shrub layer.