Spruce and spruce hardwoods surrounding this large stand.;Huge (6 m high) tips mounds, large down trees, boulders. "Impenetrable" spruce-rhododendron forest in large, old stand covering top of Pottsville-capped knob on McGowan Mtn. Old growth structure. No trails enter the stand-I traversed it (with great difficulty) from southwest to northeast.
Representativeness
Plot was placed near the middle of the stand, in a typical setting with good structure and large trees.