Stand is developed on very even slight slope with no microtopography; but downed boles and remaining reproduction have created a welter of microsites; soils fairly coarse with appreciable rock content (10-20% by vol.).
Representativeness
Representative of open beetle-killed logs (downed and standing); plot is essentially representing ea
Ostensibly the nearly complete mortality of PINCON has been due to beetle-kill (can see galleries on bole); most have bown-down, toppled and in 9-13" diameter category; dead-standing would be fewer than 3-5 stems per acre.