Guide to Significant Wildlife Habitat - Door County Web Map

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The Natural Heritage Inventory program's three objectives are to:
1) collect information on occurrences of rare plants and animals, high-quality natural
communities, and significant natural features in Wisconsin,
2) standardize this information, enter it into an electronic database, and mark locations on base
maps for the state, and
3) use this information to further the protection and management of rare species, natural
communities, and natural features.
Information in the Natural Heritage Inventory is sensitive because rare species are very
vulnerable to collection as well as destruction. Publication of exact locations may threaten their continued
existence. It is for this reason that the NHI data are exempt from the Wisconsin Open Records Law.
However, the Bureau of Endangered Resources can and does share NHI data to facilitate protection, plan
management, design preserves, and avoid impacts to rare resources.
The following pages catalog rare animals, invertebrate, plants, and natural communities keyed to
the 17 proposed conservation areas and other state owned or private landscapes that surround or make up
part of these conservation areas.
Several species are classified as rare and sensitive to further loss such that their location is
generalized only to the county. There are seven species in this classification; two animal species; the
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), and Bat Hiberhaculum (Bat hibernaculum) and five plant species;
Round-leaved Orchis (Amerorchis rotundifolia), Fairy Slipper (Calypso bulbosa), Ram’s Head Lady’s
Slipper (Cypripedium arietinum), Small Yellow Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium paraviflorum), and Showy
Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium reginae).
Please take note of the following when using these tables:
1) The presence of a rare species at a location does not imply that all taxonomic groups have been
surveyed at that site. As such, the date should be interpreted with caution and an “absence of
evidence is not evidence of absence” is a philosophy that should be in force.
2) These tables include data provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Natural
Heritage Inventory Program (WNHI). The NHI Program houses the most complete database of
locations and status of rare species, high quality natural communities, and natural features in
Wisconsin. Data provided are based on a comprehensive rare species inventory of the state. The
lack of data shall not be construed to mean that no significant features are present. The WNHI
makes no guarantee or warranty concerning the accuracy or completeness of information
contained in the database and does not necessarily endorse any interpretation or products
derived from the data.
Appendix B – Door County’s Rare Species & Natural Communities