What plants and animals live in the watershed?
The watershed is home to a wide variety of plants and animals that are native to the area, as well as introduced species. The native forest is dominated by white pine and mixed hardwoods, including red and white oak; sugar, red and silver maple; white ash, hickories and walnuts. Other trees of note include swamp white oak, American elm, Eastern hemlock, Atlantic white cedar and green ash. Junipers, dogwoods, aspens, willows, blueberries and huckleberries, cranberries, wild cherries, viburnums, alders, buttonbush, azaleas, rhododendrons, and numerous other plants make up the shrub layers. There are many wildflowers, grasses, rushes, sedges, ferns, mushrooms, lichens and mosses. More information about native plants is available from the New England Wildflower Society at www.newfs.org. Mammals living in the watershed include river otter, fisher, mink, skunk, ermine, weasel, beaver, muskrat, raccoon, grey and red fox, coyote, porcupine, white-tailed deer, woodchuck, chipmunk, grey and red
