1. College Woods Assessment Prepared by the Advisory Committee on Land and Property Use For the Ecosystem Task Force

2. What we were asked to do… • Conduct an inventory of natural resources and current and past uses of College Woods and Woodman Farm • Within these properties, use spatial analysis to identify those areas that have greatest value in the undeveloped state • Make recommendations about future use and delineate a boundary for what should be designated as undeveloped land Accomplished in part by College Woods Assessment, Part 1 Accomplished in part by College Woods Assessment, Part 2

3. 1921 Mathes 1921 Weld 1986 Ellison 1942 Moore 1921 Weld 1891 Thompson 1935 Ellison Niemi 1934 1934 Teeri What is College Woods?

4. What is College Woods? 1939

5. What is College Woods? Plantations 1941-42

6. 1939

7. What is College Woods?

8. Current stand cover types 1 white pine-hardwoods 2 hemlock- beech-oak-pine 3 mixed hardwoods 4 white pine-hemlock

9. NATURAL RESOURCES PHYSICAL BIODIVERSITY Vegetation, natural communities Species Unique wildlife habitat Wildlife corridors Invasive species • Topography • Geology • Soil • Watersheds • Water bodies

10. Soil Types

11. College Brook College Brook Swamp Brook Oyster River Reservoir Watersheds and Water Bodies

12. Natural Communities UPLAND FORESTS four types WETLANDS 15 units six types

13. Species Richness: Estimates • Vascular plants >292 species • Insects and spiders >280 species • Fish 16 species • Mammals, birds, herps >108 species • Fungi? • Most invertebrates? • Protists? • Eukaryotes?

14. Unique Natural Features * A B,C Old white pine trees (>300 years) Old pine-hemlock forest Unique wetlands B1

15. I Wildlife Corridors

16. Invasive Plants

17. USES • Drinking water • Teaching • Research • Recreation • Resource management • timber harvest • wildlife management • Other uses

18. UNH TEACHING 5,240 student visits to College Woods annually

19. RECREATION MAIN ST CAMPUS MILL RD

20. If these data hold from May through October, College Woods would register 29,000 recreational visits over this period.

21. What we were asked to do… • Conduct an inventory of natural resources and current and past uses of College Woods and Woodman Farm • Within these properties, use spatial analysis to identify those areas that have greatest value in the undeveloped state • Make recommendations about future use and delineate a boundary for what should be designated as undeveloped land Accomplished in part by College Woods Assessment, Part 1 Accomplished in part by College Woods Assessment, Part 2

22. College Woods Assessment: Spatial Analysis

23. THE RUBRIC

24. 300 ft Ecological value by block

25. Educational use by block

26. Recreational value by block

27. Overall index by block

28. Buffers

29. Areas of special concern; recommendations.