Little Tom Mountain

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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Little Tom Mountain is a 73 acres ( 29.5 ha) large around the same, 632 ft ( 192.6 m) high mountain -scale nature reserve near Holyoke, Massachusetts in the United States, that of the organization The Trustees of Reservations is managed.

Sanctuary

The nature reserve right on the Connecticut River lying is part of a contiguous area of 2,500 acres ( 10.1 km ²), all as a protected landscape rare animal and plant species - houses and at the same time is a recreational area for the towns in the area - especially reptiles and amphibians. In the immediate vicinity are the reserve Dinosaur Footprints, which is also managed by the Trustees, as well as the protected area managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR ) Mount Tom State Reservation, which is crossed by the Metacomet - Monadnock Trail.

In 2002, a Community acquired from the Trustees of Reservations, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the DCR and the Holyoke -based branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America is a 396 acres (1.6 km ²) large area on the eastern flank of the Mount Tom, to protect the former ski resort located there. Under the following to acquire common administration, the area was divided among the parties, thereby placing the reserve Little Tom Mountain was born.