Mike Friel

Native to northern Appalachia, porcupines have been slowly migrating south into West Virginia.

Porcupine invasion reaches into south-central West Virginia

In some corners of West Virginia, resident rodents such as squirrels and beavers are sharing habitat with their slow-moving, short-sighted, and very prickly cousin—the porcupine. Verifiable reports of these non-native animals in the Eastern Panhandle date back to at least the later 1980s, according to Rich Rogers, district wildlife biologist and furbearer program coordinator for … Read more