page_title: Barbours Creek Wilderness Addition
section_title: Natural history
hierarchical_section_title: Barbours Creek Wilderness Addition / Natural history
caption_attribution_description: English: Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Image title: Brook trout swims in native stream underwater fish image Image from Public domain images website, http://www.public-domain-image.com/full-image/fauna-animals-public-domain-images-pictures/fishes-public-domain-images-pictures/brook-trout-swims-in-native-stream-underwater-fish-image.jpg.html
context_page_description: Barbours Creek Wilderness Addition, a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. The Wilderness Society has designated the area as a “Mountain Treasure”.
  Next to the Barbours Creek Wilderness, the area extends the wilderness opportunity to an upland oak forest managed mainly for bear. There is a good walk along Potts Mountain.
  The area is part of the Barbours Creek-Shawvers Run Cluster.
context_section_description: The area is within the Ridge and Valley Subsection of the Northern Ridge and Valley Section in the Central Appalachian Broadleaf Coniferous Forest-Meadow Province.  Yellow poplar, northern red oak, white oak, basswood, cucumber tree, white ash, eastern hemlock and red maple are found in colluvial drainages, toeslopes and along flood  plains of small to medium-sized streams.  White oak, northern red oak, and hickory dominate on the north and west, while chestnut oak, scarlet oak and yellow pine are found on ridgetops and  midslopes on the east.
  Wild natural trout streams in Virginia are classified by the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries by their water quality, with class i the highest and class iv the lowest.  Barboiurs Creek is a class ii stream.
  The area contains a small tract of old-growth trees, 140 years old or older.
caption: Brook trout
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