Gas line runs up ridge nose behind plot. Forests in vicinity are mostly young.;Ridge shoulder with southwest aspect near top of hill. Community is a deciduous forest dominated by a mixture of oaks in the canopy with sourwood, hickories and oak regeneration in subcanopy. Understory has patchy cover by blueberries, mosses and xeric-acidic tolerant herbs. Rotted sawn stumps and tree tops are evidence of past selective logging - more extensive logging probably initiated stand. There is a lot of oak regeneration in all strata.
Representativeness
Large patch of oak-hickory/ericad forest of upper slope warm aspects.