Natural Resources Chapter of the Master Plan - Town of Wolfeboro

Natural Resources Chapter, Wolfeboro, NH
development, and they offer recreational opportunities for the town‟s residents, such as hiking,
snowmobiling, snowshoeing, etc.
There are many unfragmented land blocks located in Wolfeboro, ranging in size from less than
200 land acres to 16,636 land acres. Table 18 lists the five largest unfragmented land blocks in
Wolfeboro. Although many of these blocks contain a water resource, they are the top five blocks
with the most land acres. Most of the large unfragmented blocks extend outside the Town
boundaries, and may not be entirely in the Town of Wolfeboro. This presents an opportunity for
Wolfeboro to work cooperatively with neighboring towns to develop plans to maintain the
integrity of these large remaining blocks of unfragmented land.
Table 28: Unfragmented Land Blocks
Rank Land Acres Total Acres Features
1 16,636 17,149 Including Rust Pond, Marshfield Easement, Patten
Corp. Conservation Land.
2 6,737 6,760 Including Brown‟s Ridge & N. Wakefield Rd. Lot,
Drew Lot, Trask Mountain Road Lot.
3 3,468 3,475 Including Crawford Easement, Benker and Clark
Conservation Lands.
4 3,315 3,472 Including Upper Beech Pond.
5 2,854 2,866 Just south of Hopewell Easement.
NH GRANIT; June 2009
Larger areas of unfragmented lands are more likely to support a greater diversity of viable
populations of wildlife species. Small fragments may not be able to support breeding
populations, not to mention persistent fragmentation can often lead to genetic changes and a loss
of genetic diversity as populations subdivide into small breeding populations.
Table 19 lists habitat block size requirements for selected wildlife species, which helps to show
the importance of large unfragmented blocks.
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