Natural Community and Cover Types

We classified the natural community type for our site as a Dry Oak-Hickory-Maple-Hophornbeam forest. This community type dominates the western side of our hectare and is represented by stands one and two. Stand three starts to transition to a Temperate Hemlock Forest.

Stand one has a distinct Red Oak-White Oak cover type. As you move into stand number two the ground levels out and the dominant cover type changes to Sugar Maple-Beech. The over story of stand three is a White Pine-Hemlock cover type. The map bellow show's the cover types and plot locations for our inventory of the site.