[va-bird] Fw: Porcupine range in eastern US

There has been quite a bit of stir on the WV -Bird listing over a recent
porcupine sighting near Sheperdstown, WV.  In case anyone sees one of these
critters here is more info.

Ken Hinkle
Bridgewater, VA

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Subject: Porcupine range in eastern US


> A porcupine was caught in Garrett County Md. a couple of years ago.  The
> range map in Peterson's
> mammal guide shows the range coming down out of Pa., crossing the eastern
> panhandle of WV,
> Md. and just reaching the northern border of Va.  The Audubon guide isn't
> quite that generous and says
> that porcupines are present in most of Pa.
>
>
> Gary Felton
> KIngwood
> GLJEINWV@xxxxxxxx
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> I think that porcupines were native here.  There is a large population in
> the northern and central western portion of PA.   The are hit by cars all
> the time.  Rodney Bartgis found a porcupine on Nathanial Mountain, I
> believe, many years ago.
> http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/hww-fap.cfm?ID_species=70&lang=e
> Wil Hershberger
> Hedgesville, WV
>

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