Large USFS tract w/ extensive gated road system. Includes various sylvicultural treatments, but much is intact 2nd growth, mostly oak types. Upstream on next nose is huge hemlock with buttressed base.;Lower slope of small drainage in a middle elevation ridge system on Hampshire Shale formation. Cool, north exposure. Community is a mixed deciduous - evergreen forest domintated by hemlock and tulip poplar with sweet birch. Hemlock dominates the sub-canopy. Shrub layers are sparse, with scattered giant rhododendron. Herb layer is sparse with intermediate fern the most abundant species.
Representativeness
Medium sized patch hemlock - deciduous forest on cool aspect lower slopes. Placed plot to include T2 hemlock, which are scattered unevenly in stand.