The community is located in land recently acquired by Camp Dawson WVARNG. The tract of land has been selectively timbered. There is a large open pasture between this plot and DAWS.78. Upslope from the plot ca. 75 m is the property boundary.;Successional forest dominated by sugar maple - black cherry - yellow poplar. The forest community is diffusely lit by openings in canopy created by selective logging. Much more dense shrub cover from DAWS.78. There are several old, barkless, saawn stumps within the plot. The plot is surrounded on 2 sides by logging roads, which are covered with Microstegium vimneum and Polygonum caespitosum.
Representativeness
Large patch successional forest. This plot was placed to sample the change in the mapped geologic formation from DAWS.78.