Well Drained Outwash
Scenario model
Current ecosystem state
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Management practices/drivers
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Description
• Pinus strobus - Quercus (rubra, velutina) - Fagus grandifolia Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - (Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) - American Beech Forest
Common Name: Northeastern White Pine - Oak Forest (CEGL006293)
Other communities include:
• Quercus montana - Quercus (rubra, velutina) / Vaccinium (angustifolium, pallidum) Forest
Translated Name: Chestnut Oak - (Northern Red Oak, Black Oak) / (Lowbush Blueberry, Blue Ridge Blueberry) Forest
Common Name: Lower New England High Slope Chestnut Oak Forest (CEGL006282)
• Pinus rigida - Quercus (velutina, montana) Forest
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - (Black Oak, Chestnut Oak) Forest
Common Name: Inland Pitch Pine - Oak Forest (CEGL006290)
• Pinus rigida - Quercus coccinea / Vaccinium pallidum - (Morella pensylvanica) Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak / Blue Ridge Blueberry - (Northern Bayberry) Woodland
Common Name: Pitch Pine - Scarlet Oak Woodland (CEGL006381)
• Pinus strobus - Pinus resinosa - Pinus rigida Forest
Translated Name: Eastern White Pine - Red Pine - Pitch Pine Forest
Common Name: Northeastern Dry Pine Forest (CEGL006259)
Other plant communities closer to the coast:
• Pinus rigida / Quercus ilicifolia / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Pitch Pine / Bear Oak / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Coastal Pitch Pine / Bear Oak Barrens (CEGL006315)
• Juniperus virginiana / Morella pensylvanica Woodland
Translated Name: Eastern Red-cedar / Northern Bayberry Woodland
Common Name: Maritime Red-cedar Woodland (CEGL6212)
Submodel
Description
The Semi-natural State would expect plant communities where ecological processes are primarily operating with some land conditioning in the past or present, e.g., managed forests, or plant communities that are an artifact of land management e.g., predominately invasive plants.
Submodel
Mechanism
Invasive species removal, native outplanting, restoration management
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