The imperiled Allegheny woodrat has been rediscovered at Harpers Ferry. On a muggy morning last June in the highlands of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Mack Frantz slowly approached a wire ...

An Allegheny woodrat, an animal considered to be a "species of concern" in West Virginia by the National Parks Service, was spotted on a trail camera in the Monongahela National Forest last month.

In the post, it said there are only an estimated 100,000 of the federally threatened Allegheny woodrats left in the wild. Despite their name and large size, the rodent is more closely related to a ...