Vegetation Cover

Trees:

This photo shows the variety of tree species on our Site

Our hectare is comprised of mostly hardwoods although there are some hemlock and white pine spread out through the site. The sample plots did not do a good job of representing the density of some trees in our hectare the red oak is the one that stands out the most according to the sample there are only 7 red oaks per hectare but you can see there are more oaks in the region the randomly generated sample plots just did not happen to be in spots with higher densities of oak trees. There are not many easily distinguished stands of trees of a specific species. The most notable divide is that on the northern  end of the plot there are more oaks while there are more pines at the southern end of the plot but for the most part the trees are evenly distributed across the plot.

Volume of standing timber in our plot:

Tree species	Board feet
Eastern white pine	2538.98146
Shagbark hickory	28692.7191
Sugar maple	6134.6188
Eastern hemlock	4347.91186
Hophornbeam	3605.65415
Northern red oak	2253.53384
American beech	405.636092

Biomass: There is an estimated 1533 tons of biomass in our hectare. This was estimated by using the volume of wood multiplied by the density for each species and by using a density slightly less for the rotting of the course woody debris on the site to estimate the total biomass in the plot.

Vegetation: 

This photo contains all of our
three most common herbaceous
species on the Site

As for non-woody vegetation cover in our hectare, there are a few species which are fairly evenly spread throughout the entire area. On every rocky surface, there is a species of moss growing, and there are a few different species of fern that grow near the same rocks, indicating more moisture. Dispersed throughout the hectare were also Wild Sarsaparilla and Woodland Sedge. While the Wild Sarsaparilla we saw mainly near Corner 1, the Woodland Sedge was in every plot we surveyed. Wild Sarsaparilla is important because it is an indictor of very fertile soil.








The three most common species, in order from most ground cover to least are the following:

Various Species of Moss - Bryophyta

Woodland Sedge - Carex blanda

Wild Sarsaparilla - Aralia nudicaulis