WILDLIFE# AND ECOLOGY Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Conservation and Public Lands Wetlands (National Wetlands Inventory) Summits DATA SOURCES: DISCLAIMER NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY Riparian Zones (300') Wildlife Action Plan Matrix Forest NH GRANIT : All datasets displayed Every reasonable effort has been made This map is part of a series produced as part of # on this map are provided by NH to maintain a high level of quality in a natural resource inventory for the Jaffrey, NH Appalachian Oak-Pine GRANIT unless otherwise noted. developing this product. However, the Conservation Commission. The inventory gives Surface Water Jaffrey Boundaries Roads Wildlife Action Plan Habitat Digital data in NH GRANIT represent Town of Jaffrey, Christopher Kane, and a comprehensive illustration of Jaffrey’s natural, Hemlock-Hardwood-Pine the efforts of the contributing agencies Peter Ingraham (“The Producers”) cultural, and historic resources to inform land to record information from the cited make no warranties, expressed or and resource use decisions. The various Highways Floodplain Forest High-elevation Spruce-Fir source materials. Complex Systems implied, concerning the accuracy, resources are described in detail in the Research Center, under contract to the completeness, reliability, or suitability of accompanying document A Natural and Cultural Streams Municipal Boundaries Local Roads Grasslands Lowland Spruce-Fir NH Office of Energy and Planning, and the data displayed on this map. The Resource Inventory and Land Conservation Plan , in consultation with cooperating Producers do not assume any liability produced by Kane and Ingraham and available Perennial Unmaintained Roads Marsh and Shrub Wetlands Northern Hardwood-Conifer agencies, maintains a continuing associated with the use or misuse of from the Jaffrey Conservation Commission. program to identify and correct errors this information. The information Intermittent County Boundaries Peatlands in these data. OEP, CSRC, and the depicted on this map is for planning This map was created and published by Kane cooperating agencies make no claim as purposes only. It is not adequate for and Ingraham, April, 2009. Ridge and Talus to the validity or reliability or to any legal boundary definition, regulatory implied uses of these data. interpretation, or property conveyance purposes.
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AM Contoocook N Johnson - Society W Jaffrey for the Protection of NH # Lake Well Field T Scott Forests - Jaffrey Y RINDG Rd Pond E Carter Annett Hill CHESHI RE COUNTY Black Reservoir Beulah - SPNHF Annett State Forest - NH Dept. of Resources & Economic Dev. (DRED) WILDLIFE ACTION PLAN lark, grasshopper sparrow, vesper with this habitat type include: ringed HABITAT MODELS sparrow, northern leopard frog, and bog haunter, palm warbler, mink frog, Floodplain Forest : Floodplain forests wood turtle. and northern bog lemming. are found in river valleys adjacent to Marsh : These open wetlands are Ridge - Talus : This habitat group WILDLIFE ACTION PLAN transitional zone between northern black spruce bogs to well-drained red 1:18,000 river channels and are prone to dominated by herbaceous vegetation or includes two distinct types. Rocky MATRIX FOREST MODEL hardwood - conifer forests Appalachian spruce forests. Species of concern in (1 inch equals approximately 0.3 miles) periodic flooding. They persist on a short (less than 3 meters) woody ridge and summits summit outcrops This model estimates climax forest type, oak - pine forests. Major canopy species NH associated with this habitat type variety of soils but tend to be nutrient vegetation (i.e. shrubs) and include are characterized by thin soils and dry, i.e. the forest type which would may include hemlock, red oak, or red include: spruce grouse, Northern 01,000 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 enriched due to frequent nutrient three broad habitat types: wet nutrient poor settings. Talus slopes are eventually occur given total recovery maple. These forests are likely to succeed goshawk, three-toed woodpecker, bay- Feet inputs during flooding. Species# of meadows, emergent marshes, and steep and rocky and range from open from human disturbance based on abiotic to hemlock and beech over the long term. breasted warbler, purple finch, rusty concern in NH associated with this scrub-shrub wetlands. Species of to barren to woodland. Species of site factors (such as slope, aspect, Species of concern in NH associated with blackbird, hoary bat, Canadian lynx, 0 0.5 1 2 habitat type include: jefferson concern in New Hampshire associated concern in New Hampshire associated elevation, latitude, or soil type). this habitat type include: timber American marten, and northern bog Miles salamander, northern leopard frog, with this habitat type include: American with this habitat type include: Melissa Appalachian Oak - Pine : These low rattlesnake, northern goshawk, veery, lemming. wood turtle, red shouldered hawk, black duck, American bittern, American arctic, timber rattlesnake, peregrine elevation systems are found in southern cerulaean warbler, eastern pipistrelle, Northern Hardwood – Conifer : These cerulean warbler, eastern red bat, and woodcock, blanding’s turtle, common falcon, and bobcat. New Hampshire in association with eastern red bat, northern myotis, silver- mid-elevation forests generally include an silver-haired bat. moorhen, eastern red bat, great blue warmer and drier conditions and often in haired bat, black bear, and bobcat. even mix of sugar maple, yellow birch, Grassland : Grasslands are defined here heron, least bittern, New England RIPARIAN ZONES fire-influenced landscapes. Major canopy High-elevation Spruce – Fir : These and beech. They can include and Kane & Ingraham as areas greater than 10 hectares cottontail, northern harrier, osprey, Riparian zones are mapped here as 300 species include the “southern” oaks such forests cover the exposed woodlands of frequently mix with red spruce and (about 25 acres) that are dominated by pied-billed grebe, ringed boghaunter, foot stream buffers. These buffers as white and black oaks as well as red NH’s high summits and ridgelines and are balsam fir (especially at higher Conservation grasses, forbs, and sedges with little rusty blackbird, sedge wren, silver haired (where they are undisturbed) provide oak and white pine. Species of concern comprised primarily of balsam fir, red elevations). Species of concern in NH This project was supported by funds from the sale of the Conservation Consultants This map shows NH's most shrub or tree cover (generally less bat, and spotted turtle. protection to stream habitat by in NH associated with this habitat type spruce, and paper and heartleaf birch. associated with this habitat type include: WAP Habitat Condition Ranks important habitat as evaluated License Plate (Moose Plate) under 6 Donovan Street ▪ Concord, NH 03301 than 10%). Grasslands can include Peatland : Peaty wetlands form due to absorbing nutrients in runoff, providing include: Timber rattlesnake, eastern Species of concern in NH associated with Ruffed grouse, American woodcock, the NH State Conservation Highest ranked habitat in NH by the NH Fish and Game agricultural fields, airports, landfills, limited or no groundwater input and shade (and thus reduced in-stream hognose snake, whip-poor will, veery, this habitat type include: spruce grouse, wood thrush, veery, Canada warbler, Committee grant program. 603 848 7572 ▪ www.kiconservation.com Department. High-quality meadows, or heathlands. Species of thus have poor nutrient content and temperature), and inputs of organic eastern pipistrelle, eastern red bat, bay-breasted warbler, Bicknell’s thrush, cerulean warbler, eastern pipistrelle, Highest ranked habitat in biological region habitat in Jaffrey is found in its many marsh and shrub concern in New Hampshire associated acidic water. Organic materials (especially woody) debris. A secondary northern myotis, silver-haired bat, bobcat, American marten, Canadian lynx, and eastern red bat, hoary bat, northern long- wetlands as well as the high- with this community include: northern decompose slowly resulting in the benefit is as habitat and movement and black bear northern bog lemming. eared bat, silver-haired bat, and gray wolf. WILDLIFE AND ECOLOGY – Jaffrey, New Hampshire Supporting landscapes harrier, upland sandpiper, purple accumulation of peat. Species of corridors for species dependent on Hemlock – Hardwood – Pine : These Lowland Spruce – Fir : These valley forests # elevation ridge and talus on April 13 th , 2009 Habitat not top-ranked Mount Monadnock. marten, eastern meadowlark, horned concern in New Hampshire associated streams. forests are often considered a span an ecological gradient from swampy