Small state park with old strip mine and old field successional forests and natural oak dominated forests, including old growth.;Ridge shoulder on shale formation with fine textured red soil. Forest is dominated by medium large red oak and white oak with some hickory. Tall shrub layer dominated by hop hornbeam with some sugar maple. Herb layer with moderate cover and high diversity. Forest with canopy structure and abundant woody debris approaching old growth conditioning but some trees from stump sprouts.
Representativeness
Small patch of older oak-hickory with similar herb layer to additional younger forest.