Black cottonwood ranks among the tallest deciduous trees in the riparian ecosystem. Other deciduous species include paper birch as well as bigleaf and vine maple. Sword and wood ferns are quite abundant. Holly is scattered with some shrubs being a couple meters high and thick. Woolly panic-grass was seen in damp areas.
Naked miterwort is a tiny weed-like plant that inhabits the greenbelt.
Other mosses present are hair-cap moss and Hylocomium splendens . Two black squirrels were seen close to the stream on a day in November 1998. Comparing Ecosystems Autotrophic production in the second-growth forest is greater and more obvious than in the stream. The streambed and banks are generally a hard surface. Compared to soil, they make it much more difficult for plant attachment.