Wapack National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in southern New Hampshire. It was the state's first refuge and was established through a donation by Lawrence and Lorna Marshall in 1972. The 1672 acre refuge is located about 20 mi west of Nashua, New Hampshire and encompasses the 2278 ft North Pack Monadnock Mountain. A 3 mi segment of the 21 mi Wapack Trail passes through the refuge and provides wide views of the surrounding mountains. The refuge lies in the towns of Greenfield, Lyndeborough, and Temple, and is administered by the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Nature

The refuge protects diverse habitat types, including northern hardwood-conifer, hemlock-hardwood, and spruce-fir forests and woodlands, oldfields, scrub-shrub habitat, and rock ledges with talus.

Birds

The refuge is a popular hawk migration area and provides nesting habitat for numerous migratory songbirds such as the American tree sparrow, Swainson's thrush, magnolia warbler, crossbills, pine grosbeaks and white-throated sparrow. Other birds observed on the refuge during a 2002 breeding season survey:

Mammals

The refuge provides habitat for many mammal species, some of which include:

Reptiles and amphibians

Some amphibian species on the refuge:

Invertebrates

Invertebrates on the refuge are a food source for many other animal species. Insects in the area include butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, wasps, and ants.