Uphill is road to a small cemetary and above that is some successional or planted pine which is breaking up. Differentiating successional pine with hemlock understory may be difficult.;Bowl on upper-middle gorge slope with successional tulip poplar. Area was likely settled and cleared for agriculture. Forest of medium sized straight trunked tulip poplar over sugar maple and holly in the subcanopy and shrub layers. Dense ground cover of Lycopodium digitatum occurs in patches in dryer aspects.
Representativeness
Plot placed on one side of small drain but is still concave. Plot includes area of Lycopodium clone and area without Lycopodium. across drain is more beech regeneration.