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The Woods are host to a wide variety of plant and animal life, including some threatened and endangered species. The Washington Crossing Audubon Society (WCAS) conducted a full survey of all wildlife that call the woods their home. You can download their complete report here (714k - Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). Below is an exerpted list.
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The slender toothwort, a state ranked S3 species, and many other rare plants have been documented along the Stony Brook. and an endangered species of freshwater mussel has been documented in the brook. The Cooper’s Hawk and Great Blue Heron, two species listed as threatened or endangered by the State, are found in this stream corridor area. According to data of the Natural Heritage Program, the site is a probable location for Winged Monkey Flower which occurs on the lower Stony Brook. The preserved forests along the two tributary streams on the site protect the lower Stony Brook watershed which supports three rare freshwater mussel species which occur downstream from the Carson Road Woods property. These are: the Triangle Floater, Alasmodonta undualtus (S-3 threatened), the Brook Floater, Alasmodonta varicosa (S-1 endangered) and the Green Floater, Alasmigona subviridus (S-1 endangered). The last species has been recorded in NJ only from the lower Stony Brook. The lower Stony Brook in the immediate area of the site has records for the State-threatened Wood Turtle which is probable on the Carson Road site. There are also historical records from 1957 of an S-3 ranked dragonfly, the Spine Crowned Spiketail, Gomphus abbreviatus. |
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