Noise pollution from Alpena Gap is slightly annoying.;Small bowl on slope break below a gentle sloping plateau-like mountain top. Forest in mixed hardwoods with abundant black cherry and red maple with beech abundant in subcanopy. There are scattered hemlocks which still appear healthy (not infected by adelgid). Large red maples indicate long term importance of this species in these mesic-middle elevation acidic forest. Fire scar on red maple.
Representativeness
Another representation of wide spread matrix forest of middle-high elevation. This plot has a large red maple and less red oak comparable to last plot.