Wapack National Wildlife Refuge

Wapack National Wildlife Refuge
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)

Map of the United States
Location	Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States
Nearest city	Peterborough, New Hampshire
Coordinates	42°53′00″N 71°51′58″W / 42.88341°N 71.86618°W / 42.88341; -71.86618^[1]Coordinates: 42°53′00″N 71°51′58″W / 42.88341°N 71.86618°W / 42.88341; -71.86618^[2]
Area	1,672 acres (6.77 km²)
Established	1972
Governing body	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Website	Wapack National Wildlife Refuge

Wapack National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in southern New Hampshire. It was the state's first refuge and was established through a donation in 1972. The 1,672-acre (677 ha) refuge is located about 20 miles (32 km) west of Nashua, New Hampshire and encompasses the 2,278-foot (694 m) North Pack Monadnock Mountain.

A 3-mile (5 km) segment of the 21-mile (34 km) Wapack Trail passes through the refuge and provides wide views of the surrounding mountains.

The refuge lies in the towns of Greenfield, Lyndeborough, and Temple, and is administered by the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Nature

The refuge protects diverse habitat types, including northern hardwood-conifer, hemlock-hardwood, and spruce-fir forests and woodlands, oldfields, scrub-shrub habitat, and rock ledges with talus.

Birds

The refuge is a popular hawk migration area and provides nesting habitat for numerous migratory songbirds such as the American tree sparrow, Swainson's thrush, magnolia warbler, crossbills, pine grosbeaks and white-throated sparrow.

Other birds observed on the refuge during a 2002 breeding season survey:

Mammals

The refuge provides habitat for many mammal species, some of which include:

Reptiles and amphibians

Some amphibian species on the refuge:

Invertebrates

Invertebrates on the refuge are a food source for many other animal species. Insects in the area include butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, wasps, and ants.

References

Refuge website

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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Protected areas of New Hampshire

Federal

National Historic Site	Saint-Gaudens

National Forests	White Mountain

National Trails	Appalachian Trail

National Wildlife Refuges	Great Bay John Hay Silvio O. Conte Umbagog Wapack

Other Protected Areas	Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

State

State Parks	Ahern Androscoggin Annett Bear Brook Bear's Den Beaver Brook Falls Bedell Bridge Binney Pond Bradford Pines Cardigan Cathedral Ledge Chesterfield Gorge Clough Coleman Crawford Notch Crosby Mountain Curtiss Dogwood Daniel Webster Birthplace Deer Mountain Campground Dixville Notch Dublin Lake Echo Lake Eisenhower Memorial Ellacoya Endicott Rock Forest Lake Fort Constitution Fort Stark Franconia Notch Franklin Pierce Homestead Gardner Memorial Wayside Governor Wentworth Historical Site Greenfield Hampton Beach Hannah Duston Heath Pond Bog Humphrey's Ledge Jenness Jeremy Hill Jericho Mountain Kingston Lake Francis Lake Tarleton Madison Boulder Mascot Mine Milan Hill Miller Mollidgewock Monadnock Moose Brook Mt. Sunapee Mt. Washington Nansen Wayside North Hampton Northwood Meadows Odiorne Point Otter Brook Pawtuckaway Pillsbury Pisgah Plummer's Ledge Rhododendron Robert Frost Rollins Rye Harbor Sculptured Rocks Silver Lake Smith's Ferry Taylor Mill Umbagog Lake Wadleigh Wallis Sands Wantastiquet Mountain Weeks Wellington Wentworth Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion White Island White Lake Winslow

State Forests	Abbott Agnew Allen Alton Bay Ames Ammonoosuc Annett Annie Duncan Ashenden Ayers Ballard Bear Mountain Belknap Mountain Benton Big Island Black Mountain Blair Blue Job Mountain Bowditch-Runnels Cape Horn Cardigan Mountain Carroll Casalis Chemung Cilley Connecticut Lakes Connecticut River Contoocook Conway Common Lands Cowden Craney Hill Cushman Davisville Davis-White Devils Slide District #5 Dodge Brook Eaton Fall Mountain Fay Feuer Foster & Colburn Fox Gay George Duncan Gile Gilmore Goodwin-Chandler Grant Green Mountain Hamel Harriman-Chandler Haven Hemenway Hodgman Honey Brook Hubbard Hill Huston-Morgan Hyland Hill Kearsarge Mountain Lang Station Lead Mine Leighton Litchfield Little Pine River Livermore Falls Lord Pines Lovewell Mountain Low Marshall Mascoma Mast Yard Max Israel Meadow Pond Merrimack River Merriman Mt. Major Nash Stream Nottingham Nursery Opechee Bay Page Page's Corner Paugus Bay Percy Pine River Piscataquog Powwow River Prescott Province Road Ragged Mountain Reed's Ferry Rock Rimmon Russell Russell-Abbott Russell-Shea Saltmarsh Pond Sanborn Scribner-Fellows Second Presidential Sentinel Mountain Shadow Hill Shaker Shieling Sky Pond Soucook River Southeast Stevens Pines Strawberry Hill Sugar Hill Swain Taylor Totten Trails Upton Morgan Urban Forestry Center Vienna Smith Vincent Wade Walker Welton Falls West Iron Works Road White Farm William Thomas Woodman

Other

Other	Lost River Reservation Proctor Wildlife Sanctuary Sheldrick Forest Preserve

New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (web)

National Wildlife Refuges of the United States

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