A gas road is approximately 100m away down the drainage, and transmission lines cut through the WMA ~600m west. An overgrown logging road is just upslope of the plot.;Small patch of mixed mesophytic forest situated in a southwesterly flowing drainage. Less mesic than similar plots in the WMA, such as PLAM.1. Also lacks the presence of buckeye. Sparse S2 and herb layers for the type.
Representativeness
Plot was chosen to sample beech dominated forest cove