Preserve managed by recreation center with via ferrata and zip line tours. Just downslope is area with abundant deadfall from hemlock kill.;Rocky, north facing colluvial slope of water gap. Rock size ranges from plate-size to ca- size, Community is in a bowl adjacent to a resistant sloping fin. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by large red and chestnut oaks, and clumpy basswoods. Sugar maple is abundant in subcanopy. There are gaps and high size class diversity, probably related to canopy breakup on unstable slopes.
Representativeness
Small patch basswood - chestnut oak forest in rocky bowl. Odd mixture, but seems characteristic of rocky acidic coves in the Rdge and Valley.