Buladean, Chestnut, Edneyville, Tate, Toecane, and Tusquitee soils are in a mixed mineralogy family and contain less mica than the Chandler soils. Buladean, Brownwood, Cashiers, Chestnut, Edneyville, Fannin, Micaville, and Watauga soils are on the same landscape position as Chandler soils. Tate, Toecane, and Tusquitee soils are on benches, foot slopes, and fans. Runoff is slow under forest cover and internal drainage is medium to rapid. Permeability is moderately rapid.
Most areas are in forest.
Common trees include chestnut oak, white oak, scarlet oak, hickory, eastern white pine, Virginia pine, and pitch pine. Yellow poplar and northern red oak are common in the northern portions of MLRA 130. The understory includes flowering dogwood, mountain-laurel, rhododendron and sourwood. Some small areas are in pasture, hayland, or cultivated crops. The major crops grown are corn, small grain, native ornamentals, Christmas trees, and truck crops.