Higher terraces downstream were logged, now coming in mixed successional forest. There is a narrow cobble zone next to river and bigger bar with battered beyond that.;Floodplain of medium-sized river, 100+ meters wide here, with backchannels, and cross-channels. Plot is probably flooded yearly or more, with light litter but some A horizon development in soil. Community is forest dominated by sycamore and sugar maple with birches, tuliptree. Blue beech abundant in shrub layer. Ilex collina is in tall shrub layer next to river, S2 in from edge. Herb layer is pretty diverse, dominated by lousewort.
Representativeness
Small patch of sycamore - sugar maple floodplain forest near head of island/floodplain/backchannel complex.