Creek bottom has increasing rhododendron, with paper birch, mostly on the other side of creek.;Bouldery lower slope dissected by many shallow, parallel gullies. Geology is mapped limestone, but boulders are sandstone and soil is acidic. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by well-spaced large red oak with somewhat smaller sweet birch, sugar maple, and cucumber magnolia. Shrub layer includes witch hazel and moosewood. There is abundant woody debris, older from from density mortality,younger from gap downfall.
Representativeness
Likely matrix or large patch forest on middle elevation slopes.
