Follow loop road around from visitors center. After crossing New Garden Road, park at first small parking lot on left. Walk north on trail for about 0.1 km. Plot is off trail to the east. Tag tree (tag #53) is a large tuliptree (50 cm dbh) in stand of tuliptree and pine. Conduit is 7 m away at a bearing of 210 degrees. Vegetation plot starts at tag tree and heads out at a bearing of 230 degrees.
Layout Fields:
Permanence
not permanent
Environment Fields:
Elevation
270
m
Slope Aspect
135
º
Slope Gradient
2.5
º
Topographic Position
High slope
Landscape Narrative
Environmental_Comments: Exotic plants; agriculture; seems to have been ag land maybe 30-60 years ago; also lots of invasive exotic shrubs.
Representativeness
Lots of successional Liriodendron and Pinus virginiana.