Some very large veteran trees are present, whose age would be numbered in centuries. The area contains large cypress knees, a few as much as nine feet tall and three feet in diameter at the base. The stand is subject to flooding in the winter and early spring, but it dries out and is easily negotiable at other times. The rest of the area, second bottom on the natural levee, is characterized by sweetgum and the related species of SAF 92. The baldcypress and water tupelo stand is dominated by old and large trees with a great deal of defect.
Many cypress are completely hollow.
They have no better then average form, while for of the tupelo is distinctly poorer than normal. The stand is at a point in succession where the old timber is breaking down and will be replaced by other species because of the drier drainage condition now existing due to the Santee-Cooper Project upstream. By 1960, green ash had become established in profusion. Location Berkeley County, South Carolina, within the Francis Marion National Forest. Access From Jamestown,, South carolina, southwest 5 miles on south Carolina Rout 45.