Warmer aspects of top have drier oak-hickory with grasses. Buckley Mt. area is roaded to provide access to log jobsat their terminus, but roads are gated despite close proximity to Marlinton and area appears little visited.;Gentle north slope just off the local sumit of ridge. Commuinty is a deciduous forest dominated by red oak with hickories and maples. Subcanopy is mostly shade tolerant maples, but there are abundant red oak seedlings from last years bumper mast. Shrubs and herbs are sparse. May represent successional red oak following logging boom and fire - older trees appear even aged. Oaks are missing from tall shrub layer. Large down logs have bootstrap fungus.
Representativeness
Large patch, non-descript montane dry mesic oak -hickory forest, undersampled, difficult to classify. This slightly richer oak type comes on top of knob, probably reflect a change in geology.
