Surrounding deciduous forests include "oak-hickory", "oak-ericad" and "successional tulip poplar";Small drainage on plateau with a forest of mixed deciduous tree species over a thick hell of Rhododendron maximum. Toe slope topography with undulating humps and swales. Young aged forest with larger trees in clumps from root sprouts.
Representativeness
Late sampling of deciduous tree/ rhododendron mapping unit--this stand much younger than plots sampled at Grandview. Ravine expression of the type.