Massachusetts - Town Stream Maps
We've created 1:13,100 stream maps for all of the towns in western Massachusetts, overlaid on the NHESP core habitat/watershed layers. Click on the town to bring up the map in PDF format (each map varies in size from about 600 KB to 2.4 MB). They're not beautiful (the limitations of ArcExplorer ensure that), but they are useful.
Source Data: Office of Geographic and Environmental
Information (MassGIS)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
NHESP Core Habitat
Map Reading Suggestions...
Most streams found flowing through the NHESP watersheds (magenta-gray areas), or upstream of them, should be pretty good trout habitat, if they're cold enough. I venture most such streams in the coverage area should therefore be good candidates for wild trout streams. However, there will be some wild trout streams that aren't in the NHESP areas and vice versa (nothing's perfect).
Note that there are more streams in the watershed areas than shown on the maps...these show only flowlines from the USGS 1:100,000 maps, which means that most streams large enough to fish are marked. You'll want to use these maps in combination with 1:25,000 topo maps and Google Earth. Also, check out NHD Geodatabase to create fabulous road maps of the same areas.
Stream names come from a separate layer than the stream flow lines. You'll note many streams aren't named (you can figure it out from a 1:25,000 topo map), and occasionally there's a stream name, but no line (the stream really should be there, where the name database had an entry, but the flowline db didn't.).
PLEASE NOTE: A NUMBER OF WILD TROUT STREAMS IN THE CONNECTICUT BASIN ARE BEING STOCKED WITH ATLANTIC SALMON FINGERLINGS. SALMON PARR RESEMBLE BROWN TROUT. WE HOPE YOU'RE PRACTICING CATCH AND RELEASE ANYWAY, BUT BY LAW YOU MUST RELEASE ALL SALMON PARR. LEARN THE DIFFERENCE HERE.
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