To get to our site you had to travel 1.2 miles from the park office at an elevation level from 400-425ft. The site had a view of Mount Mansfield that showed you the elevation of our plot. Some distinctive qualities of our plot were the percentage of course woody debris, and standing snags. The majority of the course woody debris consisted of red pine. Knowing that red pine consist in sandy well-drained soils, the soil within the plot was sandy well-drained soil. When we dug and tested the soil the pH of the soil was 6.5, this means the soil was on the acidic side. The snags were easily identifiable as they had big DBH’s and could easily be spotted upon from other living trees. The biggest factor to how our site was the fact that the trail went right through it. So, many times we saw people walk right by us.

The majority of the site had bedrock of Dunham Dolostone. In the middle of our plot the bedrock was huge and had taken up a bit of land. It was one of the define characteristics that we went by in our plot. Also, our site due to its elevation was very hilly or steep. Because of it being 400ft up we did not have any flat land.

Within our plot and doing research of what trees that consisted in our site, we found we had stands of ostraya/oak mix, maple stand, red pine stand, and an ostraya stand. These trees made a good part of the forest as we observed walking to our site, but they are a good factor to say what types of tree will be in that forest, along with identifying the soil in which the forest is on. The last and important part of the site is the canopy cover that was 87% covered by the trees. Any undergrowth trees will be shade tolerant species and are going to be the next trees within the plot. In one hundred years there will be another whole density of trees that consist of American beech, sugar maple, and white oak. All shade tolerant species that work well with the canopy layer that is given.