WMA. This drainage is roadless in WMA. Upslope quickly grades to oak forest. Small floodplain below plot has young tuliptree and sedge seeps (carex scabrata) with microstegium invading.;Eroded steep low slop of ravine with small entrenched stream. Community is a mesophytic deciduous forest with beech, basswood, red oak and cucumber magnolia. Tall shrub layer dominated by beech saplings. Herbs indicative of moist but relatively sterile conditions.
Representativeness
Lower slope mesophytic forest, confined to bottom 40 meters of slope.