Forests are very important habitat.

The third type of forest in New York State is the Oak-Hickory Forest. It lives primarily about across one-fifth of the land of the state and just beyond the coastal forest.

The trees found in this forest are:

Northern Red Oak and the Southern Red Oak

Black Oak 

Scarlet Oak 

White Oak

Chestnut Oak

Shumard Oak

Pignut Hickory

Mockernut Hickory

Bitternut Hickory

American Chestnut (understory)

Flowering Dogwood

Sassafras

Haphornbeam

Hackberry

Green Hawthorn