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Natural Heritage and Endangered Species

Natural Community Fact Sheets

Natural Heritage LogoWe have prepared some general fact sheets about natural communities and will post more as they become available. The formal and technical descriptions are in the natural community classification. To view the fact sheets, you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free web viewer, installed on your computer.

Priority Natural Communities with Provisional Ranks PDF icon

To report natural community occurrences, click on the links below to download Natural Community Field Forms and their accompanying instructions.