Natural Communities Report / Flora & Fauna

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A report submitted to the Town of Hanover, New Hampshire by The New Hampshire Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, March, 2000.

Funding for this project was provided by the Town of Hanover, the Hanover Conservation Council, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Silvio O. Conte Wildlife Refuge.

  • Acknowledgments
  • Executive Summary
    • Overview
    • Project Goals
    • Scope and Methods
    • Limitations
    • Findings
    • Field Visits
    • Rare Plants and Natural Communities
    • Hanover Overview
  • Introduction
  • Methods
    • Field Site Selection
    • Field Work
  • Limitations
    • Ecological Surveys
    • Field Sites
    • Rare Species
  • Results and Discussion
    • Landscape and Human Population Context
    • Neighboring Towns
    • Rare Plants and Exemplary Natural Communities
    • Field Inventories
    • Forests and Wetlands
    • Current Conservation Lands
  • Map Descriptions
    • Hanover Base Map
    • Hanover Tax Map
    • Topographic Relief
    • Hydrologic Features
    • Composite Field Map
    • Forest Blocks
    • Forest Cover
    • Regional Forest Blocks
    • Hanover Forest Blocks with Road Buffer
  • Site Descriptions
    • Moose Mountain Site
    • Moose Mountain
    • Pressey Brook
    • Scales Brook
    • Straw Brook
    • Central Hanover Site
    • Water Works Company Lands-West
    • Velvet Rocks
    • Lord's Hill
  • Other Important Forest Blocks
    • Bottomless Pit and Mink Brook
    • Mink Brook Watershed
    • Huntington Hill
    • Connecticut Riverbank
  • Honorable Mention
    • Appalachian Trail-Central
    • Ferson Road-South
    • Hayes Hill
    • Blueberry Hill
  • Next Steps
  • Literature Cited, Map Layers
  • List of Figures / Maps
    • Hanover Base Map, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 1
    • Hanover Tax Map, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 2
    • Topographic Relief, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 3
    • Hydrologic Features, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 4
    • Composite Field Map, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 5
    • Figure 6. Forest Blocks, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 6
    • Forest Cover, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 7
    • Regional Forest Blocks, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 8
    • Hanover Forest Blocks with Road Buffer, Natural Communities and Rare Plants, Figure 9
  • List of Tables
    • Table 1. Conservation lands, acreage, protected acreage and total acreage per person for fourteen towns surrounding Hanover.
  • Appendices (Available in print editions at Town Hall and Howe Library)
    • Appendix 1. List of rare plants, animals, and natural communities,
    • Hanover, New Hampshire, and state rarity rank explanations.
    • Appendix 2. Selected photographs from 1999 field inventories,
    • Hanover New Hampshire.
    • Appendix 3. Natural Communities in Hanover, New Hampshire.
    • Appendix 4. Copies of 1999 field forms with topographic field maps.
    • Appendix 5. Maps of locations of rare plants and natural communities
    • on and off conservation lands, New Hampshire
    • Appendix 6. Bedrock and Soils Maps, Natural Communities and Rare Plants