Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Virginia
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Virginia Project


Refining Survey Efforts and Distributional Modeling for the Endangered Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel to Inform Management

September 2014 - December 2022


Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
  • USFWS Asheville Field Office
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service North Carolina Field Office

Data from radio-telemetry, camera-surveys, acoustic surveys and nest-box surveys are being used to refine predictive habitat and occupancy models for the endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel which occurs in the highly imperiled spruce-fir ecosystems of the Southern Appalachians.