New Hampshire Heritage Bureau and under the New Hampshire Division of Forest & Lands (part of DNCR)
New Hampshire Division of Forests & Lands
Natural Heritage Bureau
Mount Sunapee State Park is home to a unique exemplary natural community system, including rare ancient forest. According to the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau (NHB) and its published reports, the state park contains a 484-acre exemplary northern hardwood-conifer forest system, the only such documented forest system in New Hampshire.
Studies at Mount Sunapee State Park by the New Hampshire Natural Heritage Bureau
- Old Forests and Rare Plants at the Mount Sunapee Ski Lease Area – 1999 (pdf 5 MB)
- Findings and Conclusions Regarding Exemplary Old Forest in Polygon 23 – 1999 (pdf 2 MB)
- Natural Heritage Inventory of the East Bowl at Mount Sunapee State Park – 2003 (pdf 3 MB)
- Evaluation of Proposed Ski Lease Area Expansion on Mount Sunapee – 2004 (pdf 3.6 MB)
- Addendum to Evaluation of Proposed Ski Lease Area Expansion on Mount Sunapee – 2015 (pdf 1.1 MB)
Additional Natural Heritage Bureau documents
Natural Communities of New Hampshire (pdf 2.4 MB)
Natural Community Systems of New Hampshire (pdf)
Rare Plants, Rare Animals, and Exemplary Natural Communities in New Hampshire – listed by town (pdf 1.7 MB)
Visiting New Hampshire’s Biodiversity: Old Forest In Franconia Notch State Park (pdf 1.4 MB)
Contact the NH Natural Heritage Bureau for more information about these reports.
The Natural Heritage Bureau is in the Division of Forests and Lands, PO Box 1856, Concord, New Hampshire 03302-1856. Phone (603) 271-2214.