Acadian forest

New England-Acadian forests
White Mountains of New Hampshire

Ecology
Biome	Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
Borders	Eastern Canadian forests, Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests, Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests and Northeastern coastal forests
Bird species	219
Mammal species	58
Geography
Area	237,600 km² (91,700 sq mi)
Countries	United States and Canada
States/Provinces	Maine New Hampshire Vermont New York Massachusetts Connecticut Nova Scotia New Brunswick Quebec
Conservation
Habitat loss	4.2%
Protected	26.8%

The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England in the northeast United States and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of eastern Canada.

This ecoregion has a humid continental climate with warm summers and cold winters.

This ecoregion is bordered by the oak-dominated Northeastern coastal forests on the coastal plain to the south, the Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests on the coasts and islands of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and to the north and northeast the Eastern forest-boreal transition and the Eastern Canadian forests. There is also a disjunct patch of forest-boreal transition on the Adirondack Mountains.

In Canada the New England-Acadian forests ecoregion includes the Eastern Townships and Beauce regions of southern Quebec, half of New Brunswick and most of Nova Scotia, and in the United States northwestern Connecticut, northwestern Massachusetts, Lake Champlain and the Champlain Valley of Vermont, and the uplands and coastal plain of New Hampshire, and almost all of Maine. This entire area is sometimes referred to as the Atlantic Northeast. Specific areas include the Bay of Fundy coast, northern Appalachian Mountains including the uplands and the Saint John River valley of New Brunswick and the highlands of the Nova Scotia peninsula with the highest peaks being the White Mountains of New Hampshire.