Habitat Management

What is Habitat?

Depending on how you count, New Hampshire is home to about 300 species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians- not to mention 11,000 known species of beetles, bugs, and other insects and 3,000 species of flowering plants, ferns, fungi, algae and lichen.

Habitat is simply the place where an animal lives. The needs of individual species vary, but habitats of all species provide the basics: food, water, cover, and space. Farms, forests, wetlands and other types of landscapes contribute to the basic needs of New Hampshire's wildlife. Click below to learn how to protect and enhance these habitats.

• Wildlife Habitat Improvement: Farmlands & Wildlife
• Wildlife Habitat Improvement: Wetlands & Wildlife
• Wildlife Habitat Improvement: Woodlands & Wildlife
• Community Conservation Planning for Wildlife

NEW! Click here to learn about New England Cottontail Rabbits.

Click here to learn more about Important Bird Areas.

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