Uphill is county rd 22 with some vienna sausage cans making it down to plot. Moist gorge slopes to east have hemlock. River can be heard below.;Very steep south facing slope at top of a steep cove. Community is an oak- hickory - sugar maple forest with a few scattered hemlocks. Some bedrock ledge is exposed in plot and there is lots of exposed soil due to steepness. Sandstone forms ledges and noses and shale forms steep coves (interbedded).
Representativeness
Plot placed to sample ELU 1117 which has been undersampled. Large patch becomes matrix to west (lower Gauley Gorge).