Releve Virginia Division of Natural Heritage, see http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/documents/nh_plotform_instructions.pdf
Overall Taxon Cover Values are Automatically Calculated?
no
Plot Quality Fields:
Plot Validation Level
(2) classification plot: sufficient for inclusion in a classification revision
Overall Plot Vegetation Fields:
Field Height
1
m
Tree Cover
50
%
Shrub Cover
15
%
Field Cover
50
%
Nonvascular Cover
50
%
Misc Fields:
Observation Narrative
Plot location: Head of steep ravine 0.1 miles north of Heliport on east side of Rolling Road, ca. 0.5 miles SSW of Rollins Fork.
The very steep ravine slopes at this site have entirely of largely escaped cutting and now support and impressively mature stand of beech, oaks and tuliptree. Clearing of adjacent uplands in the past apparently fostered some flash floods down the ravines resulting in considerable erosion locally. Groundwater seeping from the base of steep slopes at this site supports the rare anthropod Stygobromus indentatus. Trees measured (dbh in cm.): Fagus grandifolia (60, 75), Liriodendron tulipifera (68, 75).