WMA with extensive block of forest on an elevational / geologic gradient. See other TALO plots. Other types include rich successional Tuliptree - Sugar Maple - Basswood - Buckeye coves. Cave entrance nearby. Noise from highway in valley.;Rocky, gently sloping ridge spur just above the gap between two headwater drains. Limestone bedrock outcrops in plot. Community is a forest of wide branching, gnarled White Oaks and Chinquapin over a subcanopy of Sugar Maple, Redbud, and Hophornbeam.
Representativeness
Plot samples older patch including more than average White Oak, of a large polygon of dry - mesic limestone forest.