Surrounded by upland hemlock-northern hardwood forest with a few canopy spruce and 10-50% young spruce in understory. Linear pipeline openings runs parallel to swamp about 100 m to the south.;Headwater swamp with stunted, innundation-stressed trees. Abundant snags in all stages of decay, downwood, buttressed roots, root raft hummocks, and tip mounds.Rhododendron is sparse to dense but averages high cover. Edges of stand, especially downstream, are a wetland/upland mosaic.
Representativeness
Observation point was placed in wider , upstream portion of swamp where run off has not yet concentrated into a defined single channel. Farther downstream the swamp narrows and spruce cover drops to 5-15%.