Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve

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Indicative range from habitat rules — not sightings

Depends on old forest

Northern long-eared bat

Fisher

Spotted salamander

Blackburnian warbler

Also present

Black bear

Bobcat

Moose

Wood turtle

Beaver

Town & county roads

Conserved land · GAP status

WildernessGAP 1

Protected, managedGAP 2

Logging permittedGAP 3

No mandateGAP 4

USGS Protected Areas Database. GAP 1 is the only class in which natural disturbance is allowed to run — this preserve is GAP 1; almost nothing around it is.

Altitude bands · 235–753 m (DEM)

Spruce-fir transition700 m +

Upper hardwood500–700

Mid-slope forest300–500

Headwater lowland< 300

Bands are altitude, not vegetation: beech/black-cherry mast forest and the spruce-fir transition both cross these lines.

Wildlife · population

Woodbury Mountain Wilderness Preserve

6,257 acres (25.3 km²) across three separate acquisition parcels, added in phases since December 2021. , less compact than a single-block park because the preserve is drawn in three pieces with at least one inholding. Unusually, the OpenStreetMap-measured area (25.33 km²) and Northeast Wilderness Trust's own stated acreage agree almost exactly.

Area

6,257 ac NEWT, current

OSM-measured

25.33 km² +0.02% vs stated

Boundary

~53 km as digitised, 3 parcels

Compactness

0.11 Polsby–Popper

Established

Dec 2021

Elevation

235 – 753 m (DEM)

Largest non-governmental wilderness in Vermont

Forever-wild easement held by Vermont River Conservancy (2024) — no timber harvest, no motorized travel, permanent

Grown from 5,400 to 6,257 acres across three additions since the original December 2021 purchase, including the ~500-acre "Eagle Ledge Addition" in Elmore

Previously a family timber holding (E.B. Hyde Company) managed since the 1950s, before its 2021 sale.

Acreage and history: Northeast Wilderness Trust project page and Vermont Business Magazine (Nov 2024). Boundary drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17054826 (boundary=protected_area, owner=Northeast Wilderness Trust). Note: this is a privately held conservation easement, not a WDPA-listed government protected area, so there is no separate "gazetted" figure to validate against — the comparison above is OSM's measurement against the landowner's own stated acreage. Perimeter and compactness are computed from the OSM ring at its digitised generalisation and are therefore scale-dependent.