Size of wetland complex: 4.5 ha; watershed area: 280 ha; pH of outflow stream: 4.5;Geology: Pottsville sandstone; Rubus hispidus mixed shrub community (S5).
Representativeness
Plot data from: "Walbridge, Mark (1982). Vegetation patterning and community distribution in four high-elevation headwater wetlands in West Virginia. Thesis. WVU, Morgantown." Strata restricted to T2, S1, H, and N layers. Taxonomy updated to 2001 USDA Pl
Historically clearcut and burned (ca. 1900); beaver colonized sometime after 1950 and present until 1974. No beaver 1974-1981. Evidence of renewed beaver activity in summer 1981.