Adjacent communities are early successional, including tulip tree, Rubus, tree of heaven and a very dense S1 and S2 layer. Mech Fork is to the west and south, the Dave Fork to the north.;Xeric oak forest undergoing post logging succession. The S1 and S2 layers are denser than those layers would be in an older growth stand. The entire surrounding area appears to have been heavily logged in the past. There are sawn stumps in the plot and along the ridgeline. There is also a small amount of ahrred wood in the plot.
Representativeness
Plot chosen to sample ridgeline oak stand. Even though it is likely early successional, these trees are in the most natural community structure of any seen in this end of the WMA.