TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introduction

II. Scope of Project

III. Methodology:

A. Delineation of Study Area Boundary

B. Coastal Species of Special Emphasis

C. Identification of Significant Habitats of Special Emphasis Species

1) Individual Species Occurrences

2) Significant Habitats

3) Habitat Complexes

IV. Protection Strategies

Acknowledgements

Key to Habitat Sites

SITE DESCRIPTIONS (WITH MAPS):

1. The Narrows Complex

2. Three Harbors Area

3. Nissequogue River

4. Port Jefferson - Stony Brook Harbor Complex

5. Peconic River - Pinelands Complex

6. North Fork Beach Complex

7. Orient Point - Islands Complex

8. Gardiners Island and Point

9. Montauk Peninsula Complex

10. Acabonack Harbor Area

11. Shelter Island - Harbor Bays Complex

12. Noyack Bay Beaches

13. Cow Neck Complex

14. Flanders Bay Wetlands Complex

15. Moriches Bay

16. Great South Bay

17. South Oyster Bay

18. Hempstead Bay (East, Middle, West Bays)

19. Harbor Herons Rookery Complex

20. Norwalk Islands and Tidal Wetlands Complex

21. Lower Housatonic River - Great Meadows Marsh Complex

22. New Haven Harbor Complex

23. Falkner and Goose Islands

24. Greater Hammonasset Complex

25. Connecticut River and Tidal Wetlands Complex

26. Lower Thames River System

27. Fishers Island Sound Complex

28. Block Island

29. Chapman Swamp/Pawcatuck River

30. Maschaug Pond and Beach

31. Areas North and East of Trustom Pond and Green Hill Swamp

32. Hundred Acre Cove - Palmer River Complex

33. Rhode Island Sound - Buzzards Bay Beach Complex

34. Buzzards Bay Colonial Bird Nesting and Feeding Areas

35. Sippewisset Marshes

36. Nantucket Sound Barrier Beach and Bay Complex

37. Hyannis Coastal Ponds Complex

38. Miacomet Moorlands

39. Muskeget and Tuckernuck Islands and Muskeget Channel

40. Martha's Vineyard Coastal Sandplain and Beach Complex

 

APPENDIX A - Map of Northeast Coastal Areas Study Area

APPENDIX B - List of Southern New England-Long Island Coastal Species

APPENDIX C - Habitats of Special Emphasis