Smokehole Ranch conservation easement. Remote USFS / private block. Up steep slopes becomes acidic old-growth chestnut oak.;Top of steep chute off the shoulder of a spit ridge above a bend in the river far below. Community is a stunted forest dominated by medium-small chinquapin oak with a few large red cedar. There is very little shrub or tree regeneration. Gravelly / ledgy substrate supports a number of calciphile herbs.
Representativeness
Plot placed in chute between two diagonal outcrops to maximize limestone influence.