WV Northern Flying Squirrel

Indiana Bat

Cheat Mountain Salamander

Virginia Big-Eared Bat

Northern Water Shrew

Running Buffalo Clover
 
   

The WVNFS is Currently threatened with removal from the endangered species list. For more information about the WVNFS and the proposed delisting, please visit www.saveoursquirrel.org

 

 
   
 
The Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel is a graceful and reclusive, nocturnal mammal that makes its home in the Blackwater Canyon. It has a long, broad, flattened tail, very large, dark eyes, and thick, silky fur. The fur is light brown to reddish brown in color while the belly fur is gray. The northern flying squirrel is found in moist high elevation forests with mature trees, standing snags, and downed logs; lichen and mosses are often abundant. In West Virginia, this squirrel is associated with red spruce and northern hardwoods such as sugar maple, black cherry, American beech, black birch, and yellow birch.  These squirrels travel through the canopy but must glide to the forest floor to feed. They glide using their skin flaps, or patagia, like a sail and their tail as a rudder. Here they  are vulnerable to predators such as weasels and foxes. The northern flying squirrel is only found in 7 counties in WV and one in Virginia.
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER
501 ELIZABETH STREET - CHARLESTON, WV 25311
1-877-WVA-LAND
INFO@SAVEBLACKWATER.ORG