City trucks were seen dumping at site behind call center - may be city property(?). RR runs through floodplain. Younger forest patches have abundant stilt grass and multiflora rose. Drainage ditches are visable on air photos.;Broad floodplain of Tygart Valley river dissected by RR tracks and encroached on all sides by urban development. Land here is undeveloped due to flooding. Community is a mostly even-aged deciduous forest dominated by red maple and black gum over a shrub layer dominated by blue beech. Areas of sparse herb cover indicate past standing water in depressions. Slightly higher areas are dominated by New York fern.
Representativeness
Small patch of forested wetland. Plot placed in somewhat older forest with fewer weeds. Similar canopy composition in younger stands = Acer - Nyssa swamp.