A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
A Natural Resource Management Guide for the County of Morris A ...
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Sugar Maple-Mixed Hardwood (Terrestrial - Closed Canopy)<br />
Not common in <strong>Morris</strong> <strong>County</strong>, although character is similar to Mixed Oak <strong>for</strong>est; can be found in Mahlon<br />
Dickerson.<br />
Mammals<br />
Black bear<br />
Gray squirrel<br />
Eastern chipmunk<br />
Long-tailed weasel<br />
Sou<strong>the</strong>rn flying squirrel<br />
White-tailed deer<br />
Reptiles<br />
Box turtle<br />
Wood turtle<br />
Eastern worm snake<br />
Nor<strong>the</strong>rn copperhead<br />
Nor<strong>the</strong>rn ringnecked snake<br />
Red-Bellied Snake<br />
Birds<br />
Bluejay<br />
Ovenbird<br />
Red-eyed vireo<br />
Scarlet tanager<br />
Wild turkey<br />
Woodthrush<br />
Amphibians<br />
Red-backed salamander<br />
Spotted salamander<br />
Woodfrog<br />
Black Bear<br />
Farmland and Successional Field (Terrestrial - Open Canopy)<br />
Successional fields, as well as farmlands, provide a variety <strong>of</strong> habitats: hay fields, fallow fields and abandoned<br />
fields - hosting such species as grassland birds, almost all <strong>of</strong> which are listed by <strong>the</strong> State as threatened or<br />
3<br />
endangered, or are in decline (NJ <strong>Natural</strong> Heritage Program 1991a). The Rockaway Valley provides an<br />
example <strong>for</strong> this community.<br />
Birds Golden-winged warbler Reptiles Mammals<br />
American woodcock Grasshopper sparrow (Rr) Black rat snake Eastern cottontail rabbit<br />
Barred owl (Rr) Horned lark<br />
Eastern box turtle Mice<br />
Blue-winged warbler Indigo bunting<br />
Eastern garter snake Mole<br />
Bobolink (Rr) Prairie warbler<br />
Eastern milk snake Shrew<br />
Brown thrasher Rufous-sided towhee Nor<strong>the</strong>rn brown snake Striped skunk<br />
Common yellowthroat Savannah sparrow Nor<strong>the</strong>rn copperhead Whitetail deer<br />
Eastern kingbird<br />
Eastern meadowlark<br />
Field sparrow<br />
Song sparrow<br />
Vesper sparrow<br />
Red-bellied snake Woodchuck<br />
* Bobolink<br />
3<br />
Alison E. Mitchell, The New Jersey Highlands: Treasures at Risk, New Jersey Conservation Foundation,<br />
1992, 80.<br />
A <strong>Natural</strong> <strong>Resource</strong> <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Morris</strong> 176
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