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Sphagnum with the carnivorous Sarracenia purpurea, also called the 'purple pitcher plant'.. As with West Virginia's remote mountain forests, the farms and lands with meadows and woodlots near urban areas also hold whitetail deer, chipmunks, raccoons, skunks, groundhogs, opossums, weasels, field mice, flying squirrels, cotton-tail rabbits, gray foxes, red foxes, gray squirrels, red squirrels ...
The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) The eastern coyote (Canis latrans var.) is expanding its range in West Virginia. The American, or northern, short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ) The woodland vole ( Microtus pinetorum ) The snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus ), typical of Canada, reaches its southernmost distribution in West Virginia.
Venable, N. J.; West Virginia University Extension Service (1988), Selected Trees and Shrubs of West Virginia (PDF), West Virginia University Extension Service, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-12
The ranges of some 34 salamander species, 15 species of frogs and toads, 21 species of snakes, 13 turtle species, and 6 lizard species extend into some portion of the state. Two of these — the Cheat Mountain salamander and West Virginia spring salamander — are endemic to West Virginia.
The creature sighting in West Virginia wasn't October's only mystery animal. On Oct. 22, the Bristol Zoo Project, a wildlife conservation park in England, shared a photo from trail camera footage ...
A few of the animals at the Wildlife Center were once found naturally in West Virginia, but were extirpated by the early 1900s. [ 1 ] The Wildlife Center comprises 338 acres (137 ha) and displays 29 different species of West Virginia mammals , birds, and reptiles , which are located along a 1.25-mile (2.01 km) trail through a mature hardwood ...
The northernmost southern spruce–fir stand of note is found atop Mount Rogers and adjacent summits in Southwest Virginia. [5] Smaller pockets of spruce forest have been identified in the higher elevations of West Virginia, although these are devoid of Fraser firs and are typically considered disjunct from the highland spruce–fir community. [2]
Cranberry Glades—also known simply as The Glades—are a cluster of five small, boreal-type bogs in southwestern Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. This area, in the Allegheny Mountains at about 3,400 feet (1,000 m), is protected as the Cranberry Glades Botanical Area , part of the Monongahela National Forest .