 Wasque is home to such species as beach plum, bearberry, blackberry, black huckleberry, blue toadflax, bluets, chokeberry, dwarf cinquefoil, golden heather, late lowbush blueberry, Nantucket shadbush, rockrose, and yellow stargrass.These areas are "globally rare communities" and only maintained through relatively intensive land management that includes domesticated animals grazing the grass, mechanical mowing and clearing of vegetation, and even controlled burning.The reservation has a number of rare animal species that depend on the conditions of these habitats; in 2004 "The Boston Globe" said that the Wasque Reservation is "a great place for fishing and birdwatching".