Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area

Coordinates: 44°14′43″N 72°55′03″W / 44.2452°N 72.9174°W

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Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area
Map of Vermont#USA
Location	Vermont, United States
Nearest city	Burlington
Coordinates	44°14′43″N 72°55′03″W / 44.2452°N 72.9174°W / 44.2452; -72.9174
Area	1,602 acres (648 ha)^[1]
Administrator	Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department

Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area is a wildlife management area in the U.S. state of Vermont. It consists of 1,602 acres (648 ha) in the towns of Huntington, Buels Gore, and Fayston. The area is owned by the State of Vermont and administered by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department.^[2]

The Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Vermont Route 17 in Chittenden and Washington counties. The area is wholly contained within Camel's Hump Forest Reserve. It is bordered by Camel's Hump State Park on the north, south, and west. Its far western boundary extends to Lewis Creek Wildlife Management Area.

Description

The most prominent feature in the Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is Huntington Gap, a low saddle on the eastern edge of the WMA. The Long Trail, the Catamount Trail, and a VAST snowmobile trail pass through Huntington Gap.

The spine of the Green Mountains runs along the eastern edge of the WMA. The summit of Beane Mountain (2,860 ft or 870 m) is just outside the southern edge of the WMA. There are multiple points in the WMA above 2,800 feet (850 m); the highest such point is 2,865 feet (873 m) in the southeast corner. By comparison, the altitude drops to 1,100 feet (340 m) at the far western edge of the WMA.

The Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area is completely covered by forest, a mix of northern hardwoods (sugar maple, yellow birch, American beech, eastern hemlock), red spruce, balsam fir, and mountain paper birch.^[2] Baker's Brook flows through the southern portion of the WMA; the source of Jones Brook is located in the northern portion of the WMA.

Bibliography

Alfieri, Amy; Chipman, Brian; Gobeille, John; Johnson, Michael; Leonard, Matthew; Nerenberg, Jason; Peterson, Robert; Sausville, David; Sabourin, Gary; Zaino, Robert (2017). "Camel's Hump Management Unit: Long Range Management Plan" (PDF). State of Vermont: Agency of Natural Resources; Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation; Fish and Wildlife Department. Retrieved 21 January 2020.

References

^ Alfieri et al. 2017, p. 9.
^ ^a ^b "Huntington Gap Wildlife Management Area" (PDF). Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. Retrieved 17 February 2020.

Protected areas of Vermont

Federal

National Historical Park	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
National Wildlife Refuges	Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
National Forest	Green Mountain National Forest
National Wilderness Areas	Big Branch Wilderness Breadloaf Wilderness Bristol Cliffs Wilderness George D. Aiken Wilderness Glastenbury Wilderness Joseph Battell Wilderness Lye Brook Wilderness Peru Peak Wilderness
National Recreation Areas	Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area
National Trails	Appalachian Trail North Country Trail
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Missisquoi River Trout River

State

State Parks	Alburgh Dunes Allis Big Deer Bomoseen Boulder Beach Branbury Brighton Burton Island Button Bay Camel's Hump Camp Plymouth Coolidge Crystal Lake D.A.R. D & H Rail Trail Elmore Emerald Lake Fort Dummer Gifford Woods Grand Isle Green River Reservoir Half Moon Pond Hazen's Notch Jamaica Kamp Kill Kare Kettle Pond Kingsland Bay Knight Island Knight Point Lake Carmi Lake Shaftsbury Lake St. Catherine Litte River Lowell Lake Maidstone Molly Stark Molly's Falls Pond Mount Ascutney Mount Philo Muckross New Discovery Niquette Bay North Hero Quechee Ricker Pond Sand Bar Sentinel Rock Seyon Lodge Silver Lake Smugglers' Notch Stillwater Sweet Pond Taconic Mountains Ramble Thetford Hill Townshend Underhill Waterbury Center Wilgus Woodford Woods Island
State Forests	Aitken Arlington Black Turn Brook Boyer Calvin Coolidge Cambridge Camel's Hump Dorand Downer Granville Gulf Reservation Groton Hapgood Jay Jim Jeffords Jones Long Trail Lord Lower Clarendon Gorge Lyndon Mathewson Mollie Beattie Mount Carmel Mount Cushman Mount Mansfield Okemo Proctor-Piper Putnam Roxbury Rupert Thetford Hill Townshend Victory Washington West Rutland William C. Putnam Williams River Willoughby
Natural Areas	Amity Pond Big Falls of the Missisquoi Button Point Cambridge Camel's Hump Campmeeting Point Cascade Falls Daniel's Notch Emerald Lake Fisher-Scott Memorial Pines Gifford Woods Granville Gulf Hamilton Falls Hazen's Notch Highgate Cliffs Kingsland Bay Lake Carmi Bog Lords Hill Lucy Mallary Bugbee Marl Pond and Swamp Mendon Peak Morristown Bog Moss Glen Falls (Granville) Moss Glen Falls (Stowe) Mount Mansfield Peacham Bog Shrewsbury Peak Spectacle Pond Tabletop Mountain Terrible Mountain Tinker Brook Weybridge Cave Willoughby Cliffs Worcester Range

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