The Allegheny woodrat, native to the Appalachian Mountains and parts of the Midwest, is not your average rodent. “They’re so charismatic and easygoing.”
On a foggy morning, high in the Allegheny Mountains of western Maryland, ecologist Dan Feller cradles a furry rat in his hands, poised to set it free. “Get your camera ready,” he says. “Though. it will probably come back and stare at us,” he adds with a shrug.
Maryland has lost more than 65 percent of its woodrat population since the 1990s, something Feller, of the, has observed firsthand. Over the past three decades he’s trapped hundreds of woodrats, but now he is lucky to catch a dozen in a single year, amounting to what he calls a disturbing trend. This unified approach has energized woodrat conservation, Feller says, in particular now that state biologists have connected, they can more easily partner together to apply for larger grants.
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