Uplands are mostly corn fields. Adjacent, dryer hemlock forest were recently logged. Just next to plot is a hemlock / rhododendron forest on root raft, across that is alder swamp. Upland hemlock forest has white oak and little else. Large spruce with cones outside plot.;Elevated plateau with rolling uplands and swampy bottoms around small creeks. Plot is a wetland with standing water in muddy depressions and trees growing on woody root / downfall hummocks. Canopy is stunted and open, dominated by hemlock and yellow birch with a few red spruce. Many trees have bent or snapped tops.
Representativeness
Small patch of hemlock wetland, plot sampled in wetter position of hemlock signature.
