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Site Guide for Mountains

Landscape Characters	Management Type
Landform	Moisture Regime	Texture	Preferred	Suitable
Coves, Alluvial fans, Stream Terraces, Flood Plains	Moist	Medium	Hardwoods, Yellow Poplar, Oaks, Walnuts, Sycamore, W. Ash	–
	Wet	Fine	Hardwoods, Sweetgum, Ash, Birch, W/W Oaks	–

Landscape Characters	Management Type
Land Form	Soil Depth	Moisture Regime	Texture	Preferred	Suitable
Ridges	Deep	Moist	Fine to Medium	Hardwoods, Oaks, Yellow Poplar, Ash	Pine, Loblolly, Shortleaf
		Dry	Coarse	Pine, Shortleaf, White	–
	Shallow	Moist	Fine to Medium	Pine, Shortleaf, White	Pine, Virginia
		Dry	Medium to Coarse	Pine, Virginia	Pine, White
		Droughty	Coarse to Skeletal	Pine, Virginia	–

Landscape Characters	Management Type
Landform	Aspect	Soil Depth	Slope Percent	Slope Position	Texture	Preferred	Suitable
Side Slopes	Northerly	Deep	All	All	All	Hardwoods, Oaks, Yellow Poplar, Ash, Basswood, Walnut	–
		Shallow	All	U	All	Pine, Shortleaf, Loblolly	Pine, White
				L	All	Hardwoods, Yellow Poplar, Oaks	Pine, Shortleaf, White
	Southerly	Deep	All	U	All	Pine, Shortleaf, White	Pine, Virginia
				L	All	Hardwoods, Oaks, Yellow Poplar, Ash	Pine, White
		Shallow	<50	All	All	Pine, Virginia	Pine, Shortleaf, Loblolly
			>50	All	Limited Management Possibilities		Pine, Virginia

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