This point bar is seldom visited unlike most of these Hemlock stands which are often used as camps. Front, tail, and sides of island have river scour woodland.;Bouldery point bar with back channel forming an island at times. Plot is high center of floodplain. There are a few large Pitch Pine which may have come in following a catastrophic stand replacing flood (or logging?). Community is now succeeding towards Hemlock dominance. Flotsam in plot indicates occasional flooding.
Representativeness
Center high of "island" floodplain with evergreen signature about 2X size of plot.