State forest with numerous hiking trails accessing ridges. Roads and picnic areas are in the bottoms. Additional communities seen include oak/ericad, oak-hickory-sugar maple and small patches of hemlock.;Ridge shoulder in dissected plateau landscape. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by white oak and red maple. Large scattered trees may represent presettlemen cohort - trees in general are medium and pole sized. Blowdown and tip mounds are scattered in stand.
Representativeness
Large patch of acidic white oak forest. Plot includes huge black oak but white is equally abundant in larger stand.