This band is enclosed by drier Quercus prinus-Q. rubra forest. The rdige is almost 200 m above and a side ridge is to the south.;This area is a covey blackslope area and is variation of the rocky cool aspect communities found at the far side of the WMA. This example varies in terms of slope and substrate. The The slope is more gentle and the soil is more developed toward the surface. This substrate seems to favor more Fraxinus which is abundant, but not robust and dying at the edges of the community. As with other examples it is difficult to find anywhere without canopy gaps and windfalls.
Representativeness
Unusually mesic slopw which occupies a rectangular block running lengthwise up and down the back of a cove. Sampled for a variation to a similar community on the other side of the WMA.