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Northeast Highlands Ecoregion
General Information:
The Northeastern Highlands Ecoregion is an ecoregion located within the U.S. states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The ecoregion extends from the northern tip of Maine and runs south along the Appalachian Mountain Range into eastern Pennsylvania. There are discontiguous sections located among the Adirondack Mountains, the Catskill Range, and Tug Hill in the state of New York.
The largest portion of the Northeastern Highlands ecoregion includes several sub mountain ranges, including the Berkshires, Green Mountains, Taconic, and White Mountains. The ecoregion is flanked by several others including the Acadian Plains and Hills ecoregion (10B), Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands ecoregion (5K), Northeastern Coastal ecoregion (10C), Northern Allegheny Plateau ecoregion (10E), Ridge and Valley ecoregion (10H), Northern Piedmont ecoregion (10G) and the Blue Ridge Mountains (10L) in the extreme southern end.
The elevation generally ranges from 597 feet (182 meters) to 6,288 feet (1,916.6 meters) at the top of Mount Washington, the highest and most prominent point in the entire ecoregion.
The realm is Nearctic, the biome is temperate broadleaf forest and the ecoregion is characterized by heat during the summer, the chilling winters, and the nutrient-poor perennially frozen soil types common in this ecoregion which support boreal (north) and broadleaf (south) forests that cover the majority of the area.
The land of this ecoregion is sparsely populated, but their are scattered town which are supported by ecotourism, forestry and agriculture as the predominant land uses. Furthermore, but to a lesser extent, dairy and crops are still grown in lowland valleys and beef cattle on upland pastures.
The first indigenous people to arrive in Maine were of the
Algonquin speaking people. There are several nations of people who eventually resided in the Northeast Mountains which include the descendents of the
Sons of Sheba, primarily the Abenaki. Also, the indigenous people of today who are descendants of the
Sons of Uzal included the nations of the
Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and the Penobscot all lived and/or still live in the is various locations within the Northeast Mountain ecoregions.
Abol Campground, Baxter State Park
Pierce Pond Lean-to, 45.240200, -70.055500
Katahdin Woods National Monument
Waters National Monument
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