This guide will help you become a better observer of wildlife, and help you understand the needs of different wildlife species and where they might be found on the land. You also will learn how to conduct your own inventory of different wildlife species and to monitor changes in their numbers over time. Finally, you will learn about statewide and national wildlife monitoring programs where your skills, knowledge, and data collection can contribute to broader wildlife studies.

This source contains information on what biodiversity is, how to preserve it, and the biodiversity in New Hampshire. 

A written overview of the presentations, major points, ideas, and definitions presented and discussed at a 1995 conference.

Focus on using forest management to manage for a variety of birds.

A manual for New Hampshire landowners and landscapers.

A list of non-native trees not yet recognized in the Big Tree Program.

The 2004 conference was dedicated to furthering the scientific understanding and conservation of old growth forests in the eastern US and Canada and promoting sound forest management, informed by an understanding of old growth forest dynamics. The conference featured scientific research that emerged since the prior conference of 2000 and provided a forum for discussing the identification, protection and use of old growth forests on a working landscape.

This comprehensive manual represents the culmination of 15 years of natural community classification work by the N.H. Natural Heritage Bureau. The 230-page book describes 192 different natural communities. Natural communities are recurring assemblages of plants and animals found in particular physical environments.

Chart showing native plants and their value to wildlife (which parts are eaten by which species)

A website of the N.H. Invasive Plant Outreach Group. Comprehensive with iinformation about laws, identification, control, management, disposal, and links to many other websites.

Website of the NH Natural Heritage Bureau.

A list of publications are available through the UNH Cooperative Extension Forestry Information Center. If you are interested in receiving any, please check them off and return the list to: Forestry Information Center, 211 Nesmith Hall, 131 Main Street Durham, NH 03824-3597.

"Visiting NH's Biodiversity" handout and order form

A new user-friendly publication (Aug 2011) based on an earlier technical report about the State of NH's Birds.  Full color, with conservation strategies, arranged by habitat type.

A series of fact sheets about how to improve your land for wildlife - including Farmlands, Wetlands, and Forest Habitats.