The Society has formed partnerships with all six Natural Heritage Programs in New England. These Programs work in each state to preserve native biological diversity through inventory, research, environmental review, habitat protection, and data management.

Heritage Programs maintain valuable databases used to track, assess, and provide information on biological diversity.

The collaboration between the Society and the Natural Heritage Programs is mutually beneficial. The Heritage Programs share their data with the Society. NEPCoP and the PCV Corps update records by visiting known populations of rare plants, performing botanical inventories of natural areas, and sometimes discovering previously undocumented populations in the process!

Links to Heritage Program Websites

• Connecticut
  http://dep.state.ct.us/cgnhs/nddb/nddb2.htm
• Maine
  http://www.mainenaturalareas.org/index.php
• Massachusetts
  http://www.state.ma.us/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhesp.htm
• New Hampshire
  http://nh.gov/dred/divisions/forestandlands/bureaus/naturalheritage/
• Rhode Island
  http://www.uri.edu/ce/rinhs/index.html
• Vermont
  http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/wildlife_nongame.cfm