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Online Supplementary File 1 to: Capers, R.S., K.D. Kimball, K.P. McFarland, M.T. Jones, A.H. Lloyd, J.S. Munroe, G. Fortin, C. Mattrick, J. Goren, D.D. Sperduto, and R. Paradis. 2013. Establishing Alpine Research Priorities in Northeastern North America. Northeastern Naturalist 20(4):559–577.

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Supplement 1. Mountains with alpine or subalpine habitat in northeastern North America, south of the St. Lawrence River, are listed here. Area estimates, where available, also are shown.

Region Range/Region Peak Area (ha) Source

NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 3400 Kimball and Weihrauch (excludes Canada) 2000 Adirondacks 36 Cogbill unpublished Adirondacks 34.4 DiNunzio 1972 Adirondacks 26.3 Carlson et al. 2011 Adirondacks 70 Howard 2009 Adirondacks Marcy DiNunzio 1972 Algonquin Boundary 1 Boundary 2 Northwest Algonquin Northwest Algonquin Bluff 1 Northwest Algonquin Bluff 2 Haystack Little Haystack Skylight Whiteface Dix Iroquois Southwest Iroquois Basin Colden Northeast Colden Wright Northwest Wright Adirondacks Algonquin Sperduto and Cogbill Whiteface 1999 Marcy Adirondacks Whiteface Slack and Bell 2006 (peaks with Wright significant Algonquin alpine area) Iroquois Colden Skylight Marcy Haystack Basin Gothics Saddleback Dix Adirondacks Whiteface Carlson et al. 2011 Algonquin North Boundary Basin Boundary Colden Dix Giant Gothics Haystack Iroquois Marcy Noonmark North Colden Northwst Algonquin Northwest Basin Northwest Wright Saddleback Shepherd’s Tooth Skylight Wright

NEW HAMPSHIRE Presidential 1942.5 Bliss 1963 Presidential 1130 Kimball and Weihrauch 2000 Presidential 1878 Cogbill unpublished Franconia 175 Spear 1989 Ridge Outside Bond (east ridge) >240 Sperduto and Cogbill Presidentials Bond (summit) 1999 * Bondcliff Cannon Cliff Cannon (summit) Cardigan Carrigain (southeast ridge) Carter Dome (summit) Chocorua Crawford Davis Dixville Notch Eagle Crag/Bicknell Ridge Flume Garfield Guyot Hight Imp Imp Face Isolation Kunduskeag Trail (ridge) Lafayette Liberty Lincoln/Little Haystack Monadnock Moosilauke/Blue Moriah North Kinsman Passaconaway Percy Peaks (North and South) Resolution Shelburne-Moriah South Kinsman South Twin Success West Bond Whiteface Whitewall

Presidential Adams Sperduto and Cogbill Clay 1999 Eisenhower (Pleasant) Franklin Jackson/Jackson Bog Jefferson Madison Monroe Pierce (Clinton) Washington Webster

Moosilauke Sperduto and Kimball South 2011 Cannon Mountain Flue Liberty Lincoln Lafayette Garfield South Twin Mountain Guyot Bond/Bondcliff Whitewall Mountain Carrigain Crawford Webster Jackson Davis Isolation Eisenhower Monroe/Mt. Franklin Washington Clay Jefferson Adams Madison. Success Shelburne-Moriah Imp Hight Carter Dome Eagle Crag North and South Baldface Chocorua 1596 Cogbill unpublished Katahdin 615 May and Davis 1977 Bigelow Saddleback Traveler Abraham Baldpate Goose Eye Sugarloaf Katahdin 730 Kimball and Weihrauch 2000 Avery Sperduto and Cogbill North Horn 1999 Red Rock South Horn Speckled West Peak Katahdin Abraham Sugarloaf Killington 97 Cogbill unpublished Horrid Abe Burnt Rock Camel’s Hump Bolton Cliff Nose Mansfield Smugglers Notch Madonna Fletcher Hunger Elmore Haystack Hazens Notch Jay Willoughby Cliff Horclifff East Wheeler Brousseau Abraham Speduto and Cogbill Camels Hump 1999 Mansfield Thompson, E.T., and Camel’s Hump E.R. Sorenson 2000 Abraham QUEBEC, south of St. Lawrence River 4600 alpine, Fortin unpublished 17500 subalpine Albert Fernald 1925 Table-top Bayfield Lyall Barn-shaped Logan Pembroke Mattawees Collins Nicol-Albert Le Frere de Nicol-Albert Fortin Albert Scoggin 1950 Logan Jacques Cartier (formerly Tabletop) Matawees Fortin Sterling Blanc

Albert Rune 1954 Jacques-Cartier Tabletop Auclair Logan

Logan Gervais 1982 Matawees Fortin Collins Coleman Pembroke Dodge Griscom Lalonde

Albert Jones and Willey 2012 Collins Comte De la Passe De la table Dodge Dos de Baleine Fortin Griscom Jacques-Cartier Joseph-Fortin Les Cônes Matawees McWhirter Pembroke Petit Mont Sainte-Anne Richardson Rolland-Germain Sainte-Anne Xalibu

* The appendix to this report includes additional, low-elevation sites (cliffs, talus slopes and bogs) that support alpine plants, but these have been eliminated from this list.

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