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SuAsCo  (Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord River Watershed)

 Biodiversity Protection and Stewardship Plan

Written by

Frances H. Clark, Carex Associates

Maps by Bill Giezentanner, Massachusetts Audubon Society Ecological Extension Service

under the direction of the Massachusetts Riverways Program

in conjuction with the Massachusetts Watershed Initiative

of the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs

with support from Sweet Water Trust

August 2000

 

Table of Contents  (some of these pages are large and may take some time to download)

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: SuAsCo Focal Species 

Section II: Natural Communities

Section III: Biodiversity Sites

Section IV: Stewardship Issues (to be completed at a later date)

Section V: Biodiversity Sites by Town

Section VI: Protection and Stewardship Strategy

References

 

Downloadable version

Tables

Box: Definitions Introduction

Table 1: SuAsCo Focal Species by Group

Table 2: SuAsCo Biodiversity Sites

 

Maps

Watershed Maps:

SuAsCo Watershed Biodiversity Sites  (562Kb)

SuAsCo Watershed Biodiversity Sites and Natural Heritage Program Sites  (1504Kb)

Biodiversity Site Maps (images are 140-160Kb, unless otherwise noted)

Map 1: Mt. Pisgah - Northborough/Berlin 

Map 2: East Woods, Wrack Meadow, Rocky Pond - Boylston

Map 3: Rattlesnake Hill - Berlin/Clinton; Reubens Hill/Clamshell Pond - Clinton/Berlin

Map 4: Sunk Meadow/Hog Swamp - Bolton/Berlin; Wataquadock Fields - Bolton

Map 5: Powder House Hill - Berlin Bolton Golden Run Hill - Bolton Rattlesnake Hill - Bolton

Map 6: Cold Harbor Brook Impoundment - Northborough

Map 7: Crane Swamp to Westborough WMA -Westborough/Northborough/Marlborough/Southborough

Map 8: Cedar Swamp - Westborough/Hopkinton

Map 9: Whitehall Fens - Hopkinton/Upton 

Map 10: Delaney Wetlands - Harvard/Stow

Map 11: Health Hen Meadow Brook - Stow/Boxborough/Acton

Map 12: Great Swamp - Acton/Stow/Maynard

Map 13: Rte. 2 Rookery - Littleton

Map 14: Long Pond/Fort Pond - Littleton

Map 15: Will’s Hole - Acton; Grassy Pond - Acton; Nagog Pond and Brook - Littleton/Acton

Map 16: Spring Hill and Nashoba Brook - Acton/Concord

Map 17: Assabet Marshes - Stow/Hudson

Map 18: Gardner Hill and Crow Island - Stow

Map 19: Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) - Stow/Maynard/Sudbury/Hudson

Map 20: Desert Area - Sudbury/Marlboro/Hudson/Stow

Map 21: Nobscot Hill - Framingham/Sudbury 

Map 22: Baiting Brook - Framingham/Sudbury

Map 23: Great Meadows - Framingham/ Sudbury/ Wayland/Concord/Carlisle/Bedford/Chelmsford; Heard Farm - Wayland; Pine Brook Wetlands - Wayland     (340Kb)

Map 24: Allowance Brook Wetlands - Sudbury; Pod Meadow/Owbow -Framingham/Wayland; Strand Wetlands - Sudbury

Map 25: Pantry Brook Bottomland - Sudbury

Map 26:  Greater Walden - Concord

Map 27: Second Division Brook - Concord; Dugan Kames - Concord 

Map 28: Greater Walden - Concord/Wayland; Egg Rock, Concord; Minute Man Grasslands - Concord/Lincoln

Map 29: Great Meadows     (329Kb)

Map 30: Estabrook Woods - Concord/Carlisle; Balls Hill, Concord

Map 31: Great Brook Farm and Environs - Carlisle/Chelmsford

Map 32: River Pines - Billerica

 

Town maps (images are 110-135Kb)

Acton

Berlin

Billerica

Bolton

Boylston

Boxborough

Carlisle

Chelmsford

Concord

Framingham

Harvard

Hopkinton

Hudson

Lincoln

Littleton

Marlborough

Maynard

Northborough

Southborough

Stow

Sudbury

Wayland

Westborough