Plot is 150m from the Park Forest 801rd and Tomlinson run to the northwest. Roughly 250m north is the large lake. There is a skid trail running 30m uphill from plot and the surrounding woods is black cherry forest. A drainage cuts downhill ~75m west of the plot.;The overstory consists of several large red oaks and a large sugar maple. The T3 and S1 consists almost entirely of red maple and the understory is mostly absent of S2 recruits or herbs, except for Dryopteris intermedia.
Representativeness
Plot was placed to capture stand of large red oaks amid a successional black cherry forest.
