Training center campus with system of trails through most successional forests with abundant weeds. Some areas have mixed oak hickory - sugar maple canopies over weedy understories.;Slope of small ravine above Potomac river. Red, circumneutral soil derived from limestone or dolominte parent material. Community is a deciduous forest with sugar maple abundant in all strata. Some large red oaks scattered in stand - large sawn stumps may have also been red oaks.
Representativeness
Small patch sugar maple (-red oak?) forest with herbs indicating calcerous soil. Early season with ephemeral herbs fading.