Just over park boundary is a dilapidated cabin. Ravine bottom has an entrenched ephemeral stream with little floodplain development.;Lower slope just above a ravine bottom which dissects a rolling plateau before it drops into Gauley Gorge. Community is a forest dominated by large beech with tulip and black oak over a subcanopy of red and sugar maple.
Representativeness
Placed to sample large beech here leaning towards the oak - hickory end of things.