Wildlife Management Area with privated inholdings. Cooler aspects in vicinity grade to successional tulip poplar with richer herb layer (rich oak - hickory may be potential).;Rolling hills of a dissected plateau with benches formed along horizontal geological breaks. Plot is on upper shoulder of a spur ridge to Barker Ridge. Community is a tall deciduous forest dominated by oaks and tuliptree with hickories, red maple, and black gum. Shrub layer is dominated by greenbrier and chestnut oak. Sparse herbs. Past blowdown event left tip mounds and tall intact (but mossy) windfall - not sure if this cohort or previous.
Representativeness
Dry aspect of matrix oak - hickory forest. Area chosen based air photo signature with trees on ground. Sampled for example of WAP matrix forest. Dry aspects are repeated in smaller patches on S slopes.