High elevation ridge system with history of human vegetation management including burning, clear cutting, conifer plantings. Currently remote and little visited.;Gently sloping convex ridge shoulder at relatively high elevation. Community is a forest with scattered, giant, battered Red Oak with oak regeneration in all size classes except low S1, which has probably been browsed out by heavy deer pressure in recent years. Ground cover is dominated by a green carpet of Pennsylvania Sedge.
Representativeness
Probably just a small patch of older trees with excellent oak regeneration. Near project boundary for proposed USFS prescribed burning.